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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
25 July 2024
Privacy series part five: Ways to protect your witness
In general, most civil proceedings are conducted in public and the public can access certain documents filed at court and referred to in public hearings. One of the issues that may arise when preparing trial witness statements is balancing the need to provide the court (and opponent) with factual witness evidence to support your client’s case, and ensuring that witnesses are offered sufficient protections where necessary.
18 July 2024
Privacy series part four: Protecting confidential information - An overview of injunctions
The unauthorised dissemination, or misuse, of confidential information can be considered a serious threat to the future health and viability of a company, and can cause serious distress to individuals. As such, we are often approached by potential clients whose first instinct is, invariably, to ask us to go to court to obtain an injunction to protect their confidential information. However, obtaining an injunction in these types of cases is seldom as straightforward as many assume.
11 July 2024
Privacy series part three: Privacy in tax litigation
Privacy and confidentiality in tax cases have always been important particularly where the taxpayer is someone in the public eye. Whilst a tax enquiry, or indeed litigation, does not mean that the taxpayer has ‘done something wrong’, there are certain negative inferences made by the public and media which could impact future opportunities for the individual or corporate involved.
4 July 2024
Privacy series part two: Court of Protection – An open secret?
Once referred to as a “secret court”, the Court of Protection is increasingly limiting its privacy and is arguably becoming more open.
3 July 2024
Why art collectors should care about James Stunt and the Cheeke Sisters…
In roughly 1640, Sir Anthony van Dyck painted what is known today as the ‘Double Portrait of the Cheeke Sisters’ (the “Painting"). The Painting depicts two sisters, wearing copper and silver coloured gowns, standing against an English countryside background - and it is currently valued at approximately £4,000,000.
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