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  • Posted on May 16, 2024
    The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 will give local authorities new powers to hold rental auctions of empty high street properties if landlords do not find tenants for themselves. The relevant parts of the legislation are not yet in force, but if you are a landlord of urban retail, office or hospitality premises which are either vacant or at risk of becoming vacant, you should talk to your solicitor now, to assess the risk of your property being subject to a compulsory rental auction and understand what the process would mean.
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  • Posted on May 15, 2024
    If you are a member of a partnership and one of your partners has been accused of breaching professional standards, this will have a serious impact on the whole partnership - not just the partner under scrutiny. The partnership will have to handle an investigation, which could lead to potential financial and reputational damage, as well as dealing with the partner who has been accused.
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  • Posted on May 14, 2024
    There are several reasons why someone might owe you money, it could be an unpaid loan, a gift that you want back, or perhaps the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ would like their cash back after a child’s relationship has gone sour.
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  • Posted on April 22, 2024
    If you are involved in a business dispute which has reached the point of discussing loss of profit, then it may be more complicated than you expected to come to an agreed figure. When a court awards damages, the sum determined is intended to compensate you, rather than to punish your opponent, and the objective is to place you in the same position as if the contract had not been breached.
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  • Posted on April 19, 2024
    The 2020s have been called ‘The Great Wealth Transfer,’ as £1 trillion of wealth built up by the ‘baby boomers’ is expected to pass to the next generation. Much of this wealth will pass via a family business, and parents who wish to retire are having to make strategic decisions about succession planning.
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