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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
28 April 2023
ADR meetings in tax disputes: trust the process or steer clear?
First published by Taxation on 24 April 2023, Waqar Shah explores whether alternative dispute resolution for tax will continue to be a good option bearing in mind upcoming changes to HMRC’s internal ADR manual.
14 April 2023
Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q1 2023
This quarterly civil fraud update provides a summary of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period of January - March 2023.
22 March 2023
The Leonard Cohen forged trust lawsuit – The lessons
Trust and estate disputes are increasingly commonplace, especially in the HNW community where there are complicated family relationships in play and/or the relationship between trustees or trustees and beneficiaries has broken down.
22 March 2023
The Quincecare Duty and Philipp v Barclays Bank UK: awaiting the Supreme Court judgment
Quincecare duties have been a hot topic over the last few years, and there is no sign that development of this area of the law is slowing. The judiciary are still trying to determine where the boundaries lie, in what many think is an all too interventionist legal principle.
21 March 2023
Fiduciary duties in bloom for crypto-developers
The courts are set to address whether software developers of Bitcoin networks owe fiduciary duties to bitcoin owners following the Court of Appeal’s decision in Tulip Trading Limited v Van der Laan & Ors, where it allowed the claim to proceed. The case is poised to be a landmark for future crypto-disputes as it seeks to address several important points in this uncertain and developing area of law.
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