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Estate Agency Fined £80,000 for Exposing 18,000 Tenants’ Data to Hackers

Posted13 December 2019

Businesses that store their clients’ personal data are under a strict legal duty to keep it secure and any failure to do so is likely to have serious financial and...

Court Steps In to Protect Security of 370,000 Pension Annuity Holders

Posted12 December 2019

Millions of people who invest their pension pots in annuities can ultimately rely on the law to guarantee their financial security. In a case on point, the High Court overruled...

Twelve Month Reprieve on Construction Industry VAT Changes

Posted10 December 2019

The introduction of the new VAT domestic reverse charge for construction services, originally due this October, has been postponed until October 2020. The extended timeframe comes after businesses in...

Failing to Disclose Assets Can Bite Back in Divorce

Posted9 December 2019

In a case illustrating the importance of candour regarding financial circumstances in divorce proceedings, a husband who failed to disclose the true extent of his wealth to family judges was...

Loyalty Bonuses Taxable, Rules Upper Tribunal

Posted6 December 2019

Investors using the popular online financial investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) may not have heard that the ‘loyalty bonuses’ they receive from HL have been deemed by the Upper Tribunal...

Email Footer Counts as Signature, High Court Rules

Posted5 December 2019

In a recent property case that will have a bearing on all contractual matters, the High Court ruled that a footer automatically appended to an email amounted to a legal...