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Blake Morgan shortlisted for Dealmakers Awards
Blake Morgan has been shortlisted for legal team of the year. Insider has now published the Wales Dealmakers shortlist; recognising the most outstanding corporate finance deals in Wales, and the...
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Regulating the “wild west” of digital currencies, crypto-assets, ICOs and smart contracts
The House of Commons Treasury Committee has just published its Report on Digital Currencies – or as it now prefers to call them "crypto-assets" as they are not really currencies...
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Credit reference agency fined £500,000 for serious data breach
The Information Commissioner's Office has today (20 September) issued a monetary penalty notice to credit reference agency Equifax Limited for serious breaches of data protection law. The £500,000 penalty represents the...
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Success for Blake Morgan’s Thames Valley Insolvency team
The Insolvency team in Thames Valley have had a recent success with the recovery of a six-figure sum in relation to a fraudulent transfer of funds. In this success Partner...
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Springboard injunction granted to prevent damaging misuse of company confidential information
In a judgment dated 17 September 2018 (Seatreiver International Holdings Limited (Claimant/Applicant) v Andrew Daly, AMTD Consultants Limited (Defendants) and Sun-Bay ApS, Jupiter Light ApS, and Henrik Bo-Stieler (Respondents) ([2018] EWHC...
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Law firm Blake Morgan strengthens Thames Valley Real Estate offering with three key hires
The Thames Valley offices of leading national law firm Blake Morgan are building upon their successful real estate practice in the region with the appointment of three new key hires....
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Charities Newsletter – September 2018
Our Charities team here at Blake Morgan publishes e-bulletins to keep you up-to-date with breaking news and topical issues affecting the sector. We also offer regular charity trustee induction and...
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Taking Care in Governance Decisions: The Charity Commission’s Warning to the RSPCA
The Charity Commission issued an Official Warning to the RSPCA on 22 August 2018, which criticised the organisation's recent decision to agree a substantial financial settlement with its former Acting...
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Death Benefits – a positive development on the rights of cohabitees and ‘common-law spouses’
In the recent Supreme Court decision in the matter of an application by Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 48, the UK's highest court took a big...
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How to leave a legacy this Remember a Charity Week
Leading law firm Blake Morgan is encouraging people to support good causes by thinking twice when making a Will as the firm marks this year’s Remember a Charity Week. Now...
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Controlling the fate of your estate
The tragic death of businessman Richard Cousins and his family in a seaplane crash on New Year's Eve in 2017 re‑iterated the importance of including a "Disaster Scenario Clause" in...
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Sandwiched: Modern families facing dual challenge of caring for children and parents
Leading law firm Blake Morgan has today published research which shows the dual family challenge faced by many people in the ‘sandwich’ generation. 35 per cent of people say their...
