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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
11 June 2020
The emperor’s new clothes or sweeping reform? The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill received its first reading in the House of Commons on 20 May 2020, several months after Alok Sharma first announced what we expected to be the biggest changes to insolvency law in decades.
10 June 2020
All swans are white….?
I have always had a soft spot for the Black Swan jurisdiction: nothing to do with the law, but because it reminds me of my previous study of philosophy and the use of “all swans are white” as an example of falsification theory.
8 June 2020
The Forfeiture Rule - can a person who is convicted of killing another benefit from their crime?
Most people would agree that if a person is convicted of unlawfully killing another person, it would be wrong for them to be allowed to benefit from their crime. For example, if a husband kills his wife and is the main beneficiary of his wife’s valuable life insurance policy, or is the main beneficiary of her estate under a will she has made, it would generally be unpalatable for the husband to be allowed to benefit from the policy or the estate. This principle is unheld in law by what is known as ‘the forfeiture rule’.
29 May 2020
Company money should not be used to pay legal costs in disputes between shareholders
In the recent case of Michael Gott v Rune Hauge and ors [2020] EWHC 1152 (Ch) the court upheld the well-recognised principle of company law that a company’s money should not be used to pay legal costs in disputes between the company’s shareholders.
26 May 2020
Are ‘no win no fee’ arrangements suitable for inheritance claims under the 1975 Act?
When a client decides to pursue a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 for reasonable financial provision, one of the first discussions between lawyer and client is how the claim will be funded.
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