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Recovery of pre-action legal costs
“Can I recover my costs from the other side?” This is one of the first questions asked in any dispute ...
UK Surrogacy Law Scandal: What We Can Learn From It
Has UK surrogacy law really considered how it might approach surrogate twins abandoned by their intended parents? ...
Is Your Company Formed Correctly?
It is important that your company is correctly formed. Most companies intend to be limited by shares, but you will ...
Director’s Duties: What it actually involves!
As a Director, you will probably already understand the day to day decisions for the company and the metaphorical buck ...
Starting a Business, How hard can it be?
A City Law Firm Limited started up in 2009 right smack in the middle of the recession, how hard could ...
The Dangers of Representing Yourself
All change The landscape of litigation has changed considerably this year. The guiding principle of the courts to deal with ...
Handling squatters in commercial premises
The standard route is to commence proceedings in the County Court. In exceptional circumstances you can issue in the High ...
Recovering Debt
So…You find yourself on the wrong side of an unfortunate business agreement. Money is owed to you. You try to ...
Enforcement in the EU
Debt Recovery Across EU Borders Is a company that owes you money based in another country in the European Union? ...
Employee shareholding schemes
New legislation has come into effect which will allow employees to become shareholders in a company in exchange for surrendering ...
Nannies, Child Minders or Nursery obligations
Legal considerations when choosing your childcare provider A parent has a number of important decisions to make in relation to ...
Becoming a Director…liabilities?
As a Director, you will probably already understand the day to day decisions for the company and the metaphorical buck ...
Flexibility & Time Off for Dependants
You are legally entitled to take a reasonable amount of time off to deal with certain emergencies involving certain dependants ...
What is Discrimination?
Do you know your maternity rights or rights on returning to work? At A City Law Firm Limited, we have ...
Paternity Leave and Pay: Know your rights
Statutory Paternity Leave is a maximum of two weeks’ leave, following the birth of a child, taken in order to ...
Government pension reforms
The recent reforms have implemented a new auto-enrolment scheme where employers are required to enrol eligible employees into a pension ...
Do I need a Pre-Nuptial or Pre-CP Agreement?
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2015 updated the law to provide equality to couples ...
Using Social Media at Work
Employees who discuss their opinions openly on websites are at risk of finding that their messages are deemed malicious, damaging, ...
Seldon Judgment: Compulsory Retirement
One of the most significant judgments on age discrimination was handed down on 25 April 2012 by the Supreme Court. However, ...
Refused a service because I am gay
The Court of Appeal has upheld the County Court’s decision confirming that Christian Hotel Owners Mr & Mrs Bull discriminated ...
