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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
20 May 2020
Professional Negligence Claims arising in relation to Wills and Estates
A professional has a duty to exercise “reasonable care and skill” when dealing with their clients. Negligence claims against solicitors can arise for all manner of reasons. Katherine provides some examples of how a solicitor's actions within the remit of wills and estates may give rise to professional negligence.
7 May 2020
Fraud Unravels All?
In the recent case of Georgallides –v- Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [2020] EWHC 768 (Ch), the High Court grappled with the question of how the maxim “fraud unravels all” should apply to disqualification undertakings given pursuant to Section 8A of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (“the CDDA”).
29 April 2020
How to guard against and respond to fraud in the charity sector
It has been widely reported that fraudsters are currently seeking to exploit the situation with COVID-19. Alarmingly, Action Fraud reported an increase in coronavirus related fraud by 400% in March. In this blog we outline some of the critical questions, which all charities, irrespective of size and stature, should be asking themselves to identify areas of risk and detect fraud and how to best respond if the charity has been a victim of fraud.
23 April 2020
Inheritance disputes: Farmers reminded of 'alternative dispute resolution'
Farmers have been reminded that there are alternatives to inheritance dispute trials during the Covid-19 crisis - known as alternative dispute resolutions.
16 April 2020
Google granted permission to appeal landmark action in the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has recently granted Google permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision in Lloyd v Google [2019] EWCA Civ 1599. In summary, Google are appealing the Court of Appeal’s unanimous decision granting Mr Lloyd permission to serve his representative action on Google outside of the jurisdiction.
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