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• The Office Christmas Party

  • Posted9 December 2016

  Having a Christmas party can be a brilliant way to thank your staff for all their hard work during the year, and to give the whole team the chance to...

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• What You Do as Well as What You Agree in Writing Matters

  • Posted9 December 2016

  It is a common misconception that contracts have to be agreed in writing or orally to be binding. However, a contract can also be valid if it is performed…even if...

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• Failure to Prove Trust Relationship Stymies Effort to Block Sale of Property

  • Posted8 December 2016

  A surprising number of cases are brought to court each year in which allegations are made that the true ownership of an asset is something other than the ‘paper’ ownership,...

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• Lease Break Fails Over Partition Permanence

  • Posted6 December 2016

  Commercial leases normally contain a provision that if a tenant wishes to break the lease, they must remove all their property (chattels in legal parlance) from the let premises. Such...

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• Fertility Clinic Blunder Led to Mother Adopting Her Own Child

  • Posted5 December 2016

  The requirements of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 are strict and any procedural error by fertility clinics can cause untold legal complications and misery. That was certainly so...

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• Will Your Property Be an IHT Trap?

  • Posted2 December 2016

  Data published recently show that the new £100,000 additional ‘private residence’ exemption for Inheritance Tax (IHT), which is due to be introduced in April 2017 and will increase thereafter, could...

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