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Updated Insolvency Code of Ethics: what do insolvency practitioners need to know?
Jenny Higgins
9 October 2013
How will the Help to Buy scheme impact on the property market?
Julia Hicks assesses how the property market will be impacted following the introduction of second phase of the Government's Help to Buy scheme.
9 October 2013
Tackling illegal immigration in privately rented accommodation - issues for landlords
Bethan Owen discusses the recent Home Office consultation and how this could impact on landlords.
3 August 2012
Squatting becomes a criminal offence (again) – an update
The statutory instrument formally enacting section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 has now been made. From 1 September 2012 it will be a criminal offence to squat in a residential building. Anyone living in a residential building at that date, even if they entered before 1 September 2012, will be committing a criminal offence if they originally went in without permission. Overnight, therefore, a new category of criminals will be created.
4 July 2012
Mobile phone masts - have your say
Many of us use mobile telecommunications devices on a regular basis. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, few of us think about the laws that enable us to ring our family and friends and to conduct business from some of the remotest of locations. In fact, making that important Mother’s Day call may depend on an electronic communications operator installing telecommunications equipment on somebody’s land without their consent.
14 June 2011
Lease renewals - How to avoid costly pitfalls
The Licensing, Hospitality and Leisure industry has been one of the worst affected sectors during the recession. Whilst it has been predicted that only the wholesale and retail and the construction sectors are ahead of hotels and restaurants in being likely to be facing insolvency in 2011.