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Latest Posts - December 2018

Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment) Regulations 2018

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Amendments to the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426) ( PECR ) have come into force today (19 December 2018). The intention of the 2018 Regs is to increase the powers of the Information Commissioner’s...

LASTING POWERS OF ATTORNEY - DO I NEED THEM?

Claire Holland
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The simple answer is yes!  Most people appreciate the importance of making a valid Will so that we can have control over where our assets should go after we die. But you should also consider what would happen if you suddenly lost the capacity –...

COHABITATION: Universal access to Civil Partnership

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At the start of this year I wrote about the common-law marriage myth, which continues to endure so pervasively within the national consciousness, and how this widely assumed fiction misleads many cohabiting couples as to their legal rights  (click here...

Unopposed lease renewals - how does the Court decide terms?

Andrew Turner
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The recent County Court case of Dukeminster Limited v Westend Investments (Cowell Group) Limited has provided guidance in relation to what is likely to happen if your section 25 Notice contains a mistake and also on the question of how the Court will...

Late filing penalties

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As a Company director you are expected to carry out many roles within your business including overseeing the filing of company documents at Companies House. In the past Companies House have been very lenient in respect of late filings which has meant that...