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When entering into a business partnership with someone you also consider to be a soulmate, putting in place formal agreements with them can seem inappropriate. However, personal relationships can turn...
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One might expect contracts between sophisticated business entities to be couched in precise and unambiguous terms. That is not always the case, however, and the High Court’s intervention was required...
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Directors are under a duty to act in good faith and to do all that they reasonably can to promote the success of the companies they serve. Breaching those obligations...
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Contract law abounds with disputes over whether a binding contract has been created at a point in time, and many cases have been heard in which one side to the...
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Not all action against directors when a company goes broke is initiated by the Insolvency Service. Recently, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a warning to rogue directors that...
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The annual return, a fixture of the company reporting cycle for decades, is being replaced by a simpler ‘confirmation statement’. The main impact of the change is that the...
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