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13 March

The consequences of Coronavirus are many and varied, including impacting existing commercial contracts. This article focuses on the position where Coronavirus affects a party's ability to perform their obligations under... Read More

13 March

In Wednesday's budget, the Chancellor announced the immediate reduction in the lifetime limit applicable to qualifying gains from £10 million down to £1 million for Entrepreneurs' Relief.  The measure will... Read More

12 March

Blake Morgan are pleased to see that there has been an announcement by the Chancellor during his budget speech that a building safety fund of £1bn is to be established.... Read More

11 March

The ultimate trajectory of COVID-19 in the UK remains uncertain, at the time of writing, the government anticipates it will "spread in a significant way" – and supply chain issues... Read More

5 March

A recent judgment by Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) has expanded the scope and interpretation of copyright protection within the fashion industry, allowing copyrights owners more opportunity to enforce their... Read More

4 March

Mental capacity is critical to making a Will. The concept is known as 'testamentary capacity' and concerns the ability of a person (the testator) to make a Will. Many disputes... Read More

3 March

Drafting contracts requires anticipating the future. Your legal team need to be thinking about the events which can cost you.  If you are not properly protected, Coronavirus has the potential... Read More

26 February

In the first of these two articles, James Greig gave a light-hearted defence of inheritance tax (IHT) in its current form, before conceding that change had to happen. You can... Read More

25 February

Where a UK company is funded by off-shore loans, payments of interest – even to an intra-group lender – will be subject to UK withholding tax. However, the tax withholding... Read More