Insights
- Employment Law
Employment Rates and Limits 2017-18
We are approaching the time of year when many employment law changes happen. In addition to the national minimum wage rates increasing on 1 April ...
- Commercial Conveyancing
Break Clauses – The Importance of Negotiation
A break clause is a provision in a lease which enables either the landlord or the tenant, or both, under specified circumstances, to terminate ...
- Commercial Conveyancing
The importance of having a Schedule of Condition in your commercial lease
Why is having a Schedule of Condition necessary? Without having a Schedule of Condition the tenant can find himself in financial difficulty at the ...
- Civil Litigation
A High Court decision granted Claimants only £2 in damages for stolen Company data
How much is too little in damages? In a recent and enlightening decision, Marathon Asset Management LLP & Others v Seddon & Others, ...
- Family Law
Filing for divorce
You don’t need to have a Solicitor acting for you to file for divorce. It of course helps to have a professional involved who will know the ...
- Commercial Conveyancing
Entering into a Commercial Lease – why expert legal advice is so important
Entering into a new commercial lease can be tricky business. Once you have signed the lease, following completion, it becomes a legally binding ...
- Family Law
- Residential Conveyancing
Relationship issues prevents first time buyers from seeking legal protection
It is becoming increasingly difficult for people to finance house purchases due to rising cost of homes, pushing those living on their own further ...
- Residential Conveyancing
Bungalow Couple Marooned Without Electricity or Water
A couple found out the hard way why land conveyancing is a job for professionals when they ended up marooned in their bungalow, without any right of ...
- Residential Conveyancing
High Quality Conveyancing Really Does Matter
In a case which underlined the importance of high-calibre conveyancing, residents of a 17th century mansion which had been partitioned into ...
- Employment Law
Permitting the use of electronic cigarettes in the workplace…or not?
Smoking at work has been effectively prohibited since the Health Act outlawed smoking in enclosed places on 1 July 2007. We have become ...