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19 March

Investors' Relief has languished below the radar for the last 3 years, but 6 April 2019 is the date from which the earliest qualifying periods for holding shares which may... Read More

18 March

Copyright expert Simon Stokes explores the EU's recent announcement that images of works of art in the public domain will no longer be protected by copyright. Background There has been... Read More

14 March

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that it intends to go ahead with its proposals to: increase the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) award limit; and extend the definition of... Read More

14 March

The deadline for the extended SM&CR regime is fast approaching! All firms will be required to have fully implemented the new regime by 9 December 2019. FCA Guidance The SM&CR... Read More

14 March

A new mandatory disclosure pilot scheme has been operating in the Business and Property Courts since 1 January 2019 and will be in place for at least two years. The... Read More

8 March

Occasionally Mum and Dad own a family home which could be transferred to a son or daughter when Mum and Dad downsize. In these situations it is not uncommon for... Read More

6 March

The Court of Appeal clarified the legal position under legislation from a very different era but whose terms remain relevant and are still being felt today, and local authorities will... Read More

6 March

In December 2018 the Law Commission published a Consultation Paper on commonhold reform: "Reinvigorating commonhold: the alternative to leasehold ownership". In it they make provisional proposals to make commonhold work... Read More

4 March

The long awaited final part of the FCA's review of the motor finance sector has arrived; are there any nasty surprises lurking for the industry to be worried about? The... Read More

1 March

Last month we saw Blockchain Week return to London. The 2018 edition had been dominated by much media fanfare given the surging value of cryptocurrencies and flood of ICO (Initial... Read More

1 March

When granting someone a power of attorney you are giving them the right to deal with your own affairs.  However the recent case of Whittaker v Hancock and others [2018] shows that... Read More

27 February

We often discuss interesting and unusual points within our team, and recently a member of the team raised a query about adultery, defined in the dictionary as 'voluntary sexual intercourse... Read More