With increasing use of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook for both business and pleasure, it is advisable for all firms to have social networking policies that are clear and unequivocal and protect the...
When a family business is handed down and ownership is split between two or more members of the next generation, the result can all too often be discord. Normally, this can be resolved by one party buying out the other, but...
Often, it takes a dispute over something that is worth a lot of money to produce a judgment that clarifies the law. A recent case, involving a disagreement over a lease that required the tenant to build and maintain a...
A lack of candour in contractual negotiations can lead to grave financial consequences, as was shown when an event management company that lost its only customer four months after signing a new five-year deal won the right...
The judge came down hard on a Singapore-based businessman who first told his ex-wife that she was entitled to more than €2 million from the sale of company shares, before seeking to reduce that figure a few months later to...
Warners Solicitors in Tonbridge and Sevenoaks has been one of the first firms in the country to secure membership to the Law Society's Wills & Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS). Warners Solicitors underwent rigorous...
Changes to the way parents can share maternity leave form part of the Children and Families Act 2014. Details as to how the proposed new system will work in practice are set out in draft legislation on which the Government...
A recent tax case shows how important it is to be able to prove one’s claims when dealing with the tax authorities. It involved a couple who moved to Belgium in 2001, having left the UK before 6 April that year. They were...
On 2 June 2010, Derrick Bird murdered twelve people and injured eleven others in Cumbria with legally held firearms. One month later, following the usual cries for tighter gun controls that follow such horrific events, the...
A Land Registry error which resulted in two individuals being concurrently registered as freehold owners of the same plot of land has been put right by the Court of Appeal in a test case which raised an important point of...