Commercial Client

• Future Intention Leads to Tax Charge

  • Posted3 August 2018

  The additional rate of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is payable on purchases of ‘additional dwellings’ such as buy-to-let properties. A recent case dealt with the SDLT implications of...

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• Dealing With Employee References

  • Posted31 July 2018

  Contrary to popular belief, except in certain sectors (e.g. education and financial services), employers are not legally obliged to provide those who leave their employment with a reference unless they...

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• New Planning Rules to Benefit Developers

  • Posted26 July 2018

  Obtaining planning permission is often a tricky process and the delight in getting permission can be tempered by the local council adding a ‘pre-commencement’ condition specifying something that must be...

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• Oral Contract Variation Invalid, Rules Supreme Court

  • Posted23 July 2018

  The Supreme Court has decided a case which will be of significance to anyone who is used to making oral variations to contracts. The dispute involved a firm that...

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• Data Protection Latest

  • Posted18 July 2018

  You’d have to be living on Mars not to know that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in force. Its strict provisions must be complied with (the penalties...

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• Landlords – Children Count Too!

  • Posted10 July 2018

  When a landlord appealed against his prosecution for breaking a planning enforcement notice with regard to a house in multiple occupation (HMO) he owns, he used a rather novel argument...

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