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Are you considering selling your business in the next few years? If so, it is worth considering a number of practicalities in advance so that you are ready when the time comes. How the sale is structured will be the first key consideration. This can be either: selling the entire issued share capital of the…

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published new guidance to help employers respond to subject access requests (SARs). The Q&A-style guidance reminds employers of their key obligations and addresses some of the common misunderstandings that organisations have. It comes after the ICO received over 15,000 complaints relating to SARs between April 2022 and March…

One lingering consequence of the pandemic is that many tenants are locked into commercial leases of properties that they no longer require. The need for physical retail outlets has been seriously impacted by the growth of online shopping as has the demand for office space as working from home remains a reality for many office…

For many years, the UK economy has been known for its peaks and troughs.  The cyclical nature of the UK’s economy is closely linked to the UK property market. Home loans where the borrower/buyer does not have to put down a deposit (which is the normal procedure with property purchases in the UK) used to…

The Government has recently announced a range of changes that it intends to make to employment law.  We have set out below a summary of the expected changes that are likely to be of interest to employers: Brexit Changes to Employment Law The Government has announced plans to: Abandon the controversial “sunset clause” in its…

Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) have been part of our legal framework since 2007 but many people remain unfamiliar with them.  Any person over the age of 18, who has mental capacity, is able to appoint one or more others to act on their behalf in financial matters and in decisions over health and welfare. …

If a shareholder in a registered company holds less than 50% of the shares, they are classed as a minority shareholder and are also known as members of the company. Given the pressure on companies to perform in the current economic climate, shareholders may not be aware of the way the company is being run,…

This time last year, the legal press and even national newspapers were full of the anticipated changes to the divorce process and the start of “no fault divorce”.  Hope was high amongst legal practitioners who had lobbied for the need for change for many years, recognising as we did that beginning the divorce process with…