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- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Regulatory
£260 Million of Fraud Unreported by SMEs
In a recent survey of 500 SMEs conducted by Slater and Gordon, the results showed nearly one in five (18 per cent) of business owners and managers ...
- Uncategorised
Counterfeit Goods May Be Common but Selling Them is a Crime
The trade in so-called “knock off” goods is nowadays so widespread that people tend to forget that it is criminal. In one case, a ...
- Family Law
- Wills, Estates and Trusts
Home-Made Wills Save Money – Oh No They Don’t!
Home-made wills, executed without legal advice, are an exceedingly bad idea and if there was ever a case which proved the point it must be that of a ...
- Criminal Law
IT Boss Resorted to £300,000 Tax Fraud to Save Her Business
Small businesses are often like families and directors feel a very personal obligation towards their employees. However, in one striking case, a ...
- Civil Litigation
- Wills, Estates and Trusts
High Court Bends Over Backwards to Resolve Family Will Dispute
Newspaper columns are full of legal cases with crushing costs of litigation and it is easy to lose sight of the fact that it is the role of judges to ...
- Employment Law
Employees Beware! Facebook Abuse Can Cost You Your Job!
Anyone tempted to vent their feelings against their employer on the Internet should take careful note of a recent case in which a canal worker was ...
- Employment Law
New Year: How you can help your employees achieve their resolutions
The start of the New Year marks an opportunity for change. Resolutions are popular, but if we’re honest, most of us have either given up or ...
- Employment Law
Is bullying really just a childhood problem
I’m sure we’ve all been there, either ourselves or with our children – at the mercy of the bully. We’ve been told to ‘rise above it’, ...
- Employment Law
Mobile workers, travel time and the Working Time Regulations
The issue of whether mobile workers’ travelling time between their home and the premises of their first and last customers counts as ‘working ...
- Employment Law
Garden Leave: What does it actually mean?
This briefing explains when a business may be able to place an employee on garden leave. What is garden leave? When an employee decides to leave ...