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Supporting vulnerable witnesses in the Family Court
The prospect of giving evidence in Court proceedings is often daunting. We do our best to reassure and support our clients so that they are able to give evidence to...
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The Age Appropriate Design Code for the privacy of children online
On 21 January, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published a new statutory code of practice, the Age Appropriate Design Code, aimed at improving children's safety within the digital world and...
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How to ensure peer review salary setting doesn’t fall foul of the law
Ian Jones has written an article on how to ensure peer review salary setting is legal in an article that was first published in People Management on 21 January 2020....
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Women’s Prize for Fiction Reading challenge and judges
In support of female writing and Women's Prize for Fiction we are issuing a reading challenge and have more information about the 2020 judging panel. Reading Challenge We challenge you...
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25th Anniversary Year for Women’s Prize for Fiction!
2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Prize was established in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by female authors written in English to the...
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Warning: Hacking Incident
In early December the email account of one of our employees, Kate Hathaway, was hacked. We were able to quickly contain the incident but are aware that a number of...
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Health Sector News – Review of December 2019
Blake Morgan's Health Sector legal experts have put together a round-up of the latest news within the area. Welcome to the review of the December edition of Health Sector News,...
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Lifetime Gifting and Inheritance Tax
Christmas is the time for giving and it is becoming increasingly common to gift money or assets to your family to provide for their future. If you gifted money or...
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Email contracts: Forming a contract and employees’ authority to bind their employers
The recent case of Athena Brands Ltd v Superdrug Stores Plc [2019] EWHC 3503 (Comm) highlights the risks of negotiating by email and the importance of clarifying, internally and externally,...
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Family mediation key pillars
Research shows that family mediation services can be a very effective way for families to resolve conflicts. It is proven to be faster, less costly and – crucially – less...
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Stamp Duty Land Tax 3% surcharge: Armed Forces covenant
The complicated rules for the higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax for purchases of additional residential properties can work out badly for members of the armed forces who have had to...
