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Online Wills – cheap, but not always cheerful
Recent statistics suggest that as many as 60% of UK adults do not have a Will*. Common reasons given include concern over drafting costs and simple procrastination. Could the internet...
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Private Client Issues – October 2018
Welcome to this month's edition of Private Client Issues, Blake Morgan's monthly round-up of the topics you may find of interest. Insight and advice on developments affecting private individuals. Selecting...
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Unlimited holidays – employment utopia or career suicide?
No cap on holiday entitlement is increasingly a perk being offered by employers, including Netflix and Virgin. Is giving employees the freedom to decide how much holiday they need every...
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The Great British Banking Revolution – Are the Digital Challenger Banks here to stay?
Clearbank, Monzo, Revolut, Starling and Tandem; if you haven't heard of these, you soon will as they represent 5 of the most successful digital challenger banks of 2018, all of...
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Good Service is more than just Good Business
In a recent unreported case in the County Court at Central London (Sajid v Nuur, 30 July 2018), a claimant (landlord) had brought a claim against a defendant (a former...
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To Pre-Commence or not to Pre-Commence?
On 1 October 2018, the Town and Country Planning (Pre-commencement Conditions) Regulations 2018 (the 2018 Regulations) came into force. The 2018 Regulations apply to pre-commencement conditions imposed on any planning...
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Reducing family conflict – wherever possible
As members of Resolution, our Family team strive to reduce conflict as far as possible in all cases that are dealt with. This is often made challenging by the current law...
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New PPG on Build to Rent
On 13 September the Government published a new section in its Planning Practice Guidance (Guidance) on Build to Rent in order to simplify its treatment within the planning system and...
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Regulating the “wild west” of digital currencies, crypto-assets, ICOs and smart contracts
The House of Commons Treasury Committee has just published its Report on Digital Currencies – or as it now prefers to call them "crypto-assets" as they are not really currencies...
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Credit reference agency fined £500,000 for serious data breach
The Information Commissioner's Office has today (20 September) issued a monetary penalty notice to credit reference agency Equifax Limited for serious breaches of data protection law. The £500,000 penalty represents the...
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Success for Blake Morgan’s Thames Valley Insolvency team
The Insolvency team in Thames Valley have had a recent success with the recovery of a six-figure sum in relation to a fraudulent transfer of funds. In this success Partner...
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Springboard injunction granted to prevent damaging misuse of company confidential information
In a judgment dated 17 September 2018 (Seatreiver International Holdings Limited (Claimant/Applicant) v Andrew Daly, AMTD Consultants Limited (Defendants) and Sun-Bay ApS, Jupiter Light ApS, and Henrik Bo-Stieler (Respondents) ([2018] EWHC...
