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Business Rates on Empty Shops – Charity Commission Investigates

The Charity Commission are investigating claims, following an article by the Financial Times, [...]

Duties of Trustees

Are your Trustees equipped to deal with the duties and responsibilities placed on them? Trusts [...]

2011 Autumn Statement: implications for SMEs

This checklist highlights the key implications from the 2011 Autumn Statement for small and [...]

Dismissing an Employee

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that an employer’s unambiguous notice of termination [...]

Unregulated Will and Trust Writing Firms Face Winding Up Petition

Petitions have been presented to wind up companies involved in probate and wills and trusts [...]

Shareholder Disputes and Unfair Prejudice – Shareholder Agreements

The basic position in a private company is that the will of the majority prevails but there are [...]

What is a Flying Freehold?

Flying freeholds are rare, but they can create problems and many mortgage lenders have [...]

Common Law Tenancy Agreements

Letting your property? In certain circumstances you should not use an assured tenancy – [...]

Will writing firm dumps wills in the street

More than 1,000 files containing wills and other confidential information were recently found [...]

Stamp Duty Avoidance Schemes

As we reported earlier this year the Inland Revenue have Stamp Duty Tax Avoidance Schemes very [...]