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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
16 June 2023
Insights from a media litigator: key considerations for dealing with blackmail
Blackmail cases often involve threats to reveal personal and intimate information, accompanied by demands for payment. As a highly experienced media litigator specialising in this field since 2002, and having successfully handled many blackmail cases in the past five years alone, here are some key points to consider if you are being blackmailed
14 June 2023
What are the implications of poor investment decisions for attorneys and deputies?
When an individual makes an unsuccessful investment decision using their own money, the consequences may be limited to financial losses. However, for an appointed deputy or attorney responsible for managing the financial affairs of an individual who lacks capacity, a poor investment decision can have more serious ramifications.
7 June 2023
Dealing with bodies after death – are there any limits? PeTA founder’s unusual body part bequests
When a person dies their personal representative (“PR”) is entitled to take possession of the body for the purpose of carrying out their duty as a PR to lawfully and properly dispose of the body.
22 May 2023
How to keep family affairs out of the papers
This article first appears in Spear's 22nd May 2019
19 May 2023
Death, Divorce and Dementia: risks of post-death litigation
Martin Lewis’s ITV show last week covered the “3Ds – Death, Divorce and Dementia”, urging people to make sure they have a will in place and make Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) arrangements.
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