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Posted 31 October 2018
by Dan Griffin .
Amazon Brand Registry – How We Can Help with Your Application
Amazon Brand Registry was established to provide additional powers to prevent your competitors selling products using a similar name on Amazon. It provides enhanced search facilities to allow you to discover potential infringers and will proactively warn against suspected infringing…
Read morePosted 31 October 2018
by Dan Griffin .
Cost Budgets and Precedent H – Essential Guidance
The normal rule in litigation is that the successful party is entitled to recover its costs from the other party. The Civil Procedure rules now give courts wide discretion in controlling the amount of costs parties can recover. The rules…
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Posted 29 October 2018
by Kelly Burns .
Community Infrastructure Levy: Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Self-Build Exemption
If you are planning a development that involves the construction of a new building it is likely you will have to pay a Community Infrastructure Levy (“CIL”) unless a relevant exemption applies. There are a number of exemptions. One is…
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Posted 26 October 2018
by Amy Laver .
There’s no room for doubt around safeguarding: protecting people is too important.
As a fundamental responsibility for trustees, safeguarding and protecting people must go to the heart of a charity’s culture. The Charity Commission have published user friendly updated safeguarding guidance to help charities and trustees better understand their legal duties around…
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Posted 26 October 2018
by Simon Mansfield .
Proud to support Erb’s Palsy Awareness Week – Tom’s story
Not just a physical injury Tom sustained a severe Group II obstetric brachial plexus injury with damage to his C5, C6 and C7 nerves following shoulder dystocia during his birth in 1996. Although Tom’s mother sought to bring a claim…
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Posted 26 October 2018
by Simon Sanger-Anderson .
FOI – Whose Information is it Anyway?
Parish Council’s steering group holds information on its behalf under Environmental Information Regulations 2004 despite absence of parish council control or contract (Information Commissioner). The Information Commissioner (IC) has determined that information possessed by a steering group created by a…
Read morePosted 25 October 2018
by Simon Mansfield .
Proud to Support Erb’s Palsy Awareness Week – Emily’s Story
Not just a physical injury Emily suffered a Group II – III obstetric brachial plexus injury as a result of admitted negligence during her birth in 1996. Initially recovery was good and Emily did not have surgery for her neurological…
Read morePosted 25 October 2018
by Amy Laver .
Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2018
This week sees the third annual Charity Fraud Awareness Week jointly led by the Charity Commission and the Fraud Advisory Panel in partnership with more than 40 charities, regulators, professional bodies and not-for-profit organisations.
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Posted 24 October 2018
by Endurance Arthur .
Proud to Support Erb’s Palsy Awareness Week – Sarah’s Story
Not just a physical injury In 1995 when Sarah (not her real name) was born, knowledge that a brachial plexus injury was preventable was slowly spreading. During labour, after Sarah’s head was delivered, shoulder dystocia occurred, and Sarah’s left shoulder…
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Posted 24 October 2018
by Martin Laver .
Proprietary Estoppel – One Day, the Farm Will all be Yours
A recent court case has shown that the Courts are willing to award the entirety of a farm to a farmer’s child after a lifetime of work and casual promises that the child would receive the farm upon the farmer’s…
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