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5 March
A recent judgment by Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) has expanded the scope and interpretation of copyright protection within the fashion industry, allowing copyrights owners more opportunity to enforce their... Read Morearticles
4 March
Mental capacity is critical to making a Will. The concept is known as 'testamentary capacity' and concerns the ability of a person (the testator) to make a Will. Many disputes... Read Morearticles
3 March
Drafting contracts requires anticipating the future. Your legal team need to be thinking about the events which can cost you. If you are not properly protected, Coronavirus has the potential... Read Morearticles
26 February
In the first of these two articles, James Greig gave a light-hearted defence of inheritance tax (IHT) in its current form, before conceding that change had to happen. You can... Read Morearticles
25 February
Where a UK company is funded by off-shore loans, payments of interest – even to an intra-group lender – will be subject to UK withholding tax. However, the tax withholding... Read Moreguides
Our latest edition of Local Authority Matters looks at landlords who avoid business rates costs local authorities £1bn a year, leisure centre contracts in the era of climate crisis and... Read More
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25 February
With the Government’s announcement of its new points-based system for EU workers comes a strong degree of anxiety – for individuals and businesses alike, and particularly the care and hospitality... Read Morearticles
24 February
There may have been a few sore heads on 1 February this year, but the reality is the time at which we left the EU on 31 January probably passed... Read Morearticles
24 February
Judgment was handed down in the case of Akhter v Khan recently, confirming that religious marriage ceremonies performed in England and Wales are not valid marriages. What did the case... Read Morearticles
18 February
A recent planning inspector's decision involving a Facebook post highlights the wide range of dating evidence that can be relied on to prove that unauthorised development is immune from planning... Read More