IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Paul Brampton of IBB Solicitors. Paul has joined as our exclusive Construction Law member in England. Paul Brampton is a construction and engineering law specialist and advises clients operating in the commercial, leisure, hotel, office, housing, health, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure and public works sectors. […]
Over the course of the last year we at Thomson Reuters, Legal UK & Ireland, have been investing in improving our online services and solutions. Find out how we enhanced Practical Law, Westlaw UK, Lawtel, Solcara and Bulletin Pro in 2015 https://www.dropbox.com/home/Articles?preview=Year+in+review+2015.pdf
For many years the Government has been committed to creating and sustaining an environment which offers tax incentives to individuals to make gifts to charities. There are several tax efficient ways in which an individual can give to charity and one of the most common is cash under the Gift Aid scheme. Gift Aid Gift […]
On 16th January 2016, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a useful advice note on IT security advice for small businesses, called “A Practical Guide to IT Security”, a copy of which can be found on our link page. It is well worth a read for all owners and senior managers of small businesses, […]
What I am linking to is a video that took two months to plan and two to edit and another to get set up and online. So what do I do – one of the things I am trying to prevent is fraud and corruption through the International Due Diligence Organization and The American Ant-Corruption […]
The UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee reported on 1st February on the UK Government’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill, including on the costs of compliance for UK communications service providers (“CSPs”). The draft Investigatory Powers Bill will require CSPs to retain the internet browsing history of all of their customers for the previous twelve months. The Government appears to have […]
Multi-nationals have long complained that there is no one-stop shop under the existing EU data protection regulations, to facilitate EU wide compliance with data protection rules. The existing data protection regulations set minimum thresholds, which can and have been applied in different ways in different countries. It is in the light of hopes for that […]
The technology industries in Europe (and of course we legal technology vultures for whom these industries are our food) are waiting with interest to see how bold the European Commission’s proposals will be at setting the new European Digital Agenda. In all probability the answer is probably going to be “not very bold”, or even […]
As our appetite for mobile data increases, mobile providers in Europe have been putting pressure on regulators to consider spectrum re-allocation in a number of frequencies, including 700 Mhz, sub 700 Mhz (470-694 Mhz), 1427-1518 Mhz (or “L Band”), and in the 3.4-3.6Ghz or (“C band”) frequencies. There was general consensus from the World Radio Conference […]
International Referral the global network of business lawyers, is delighted to introduce Nicola Broadhurst of Stevens & Bolton LLP. Nicola has joined the Legal network; as our exclusive Franchise Law member in England. Nicola trained at Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaws) in London and worked at Mishcon de Reya and Mundays before joining Stevens & Bolton […]
This week starts off with the markets in somewhat of a quandary over what to do with the Pound. Over recent weeks we have seen Sterling drop away from the multi-year highs it had achieved, following various negative data releases from the UK economy. The overall position is still very strong though, with unemployment and […]
Introduction Restrictive covenants are clauses, which have the effect of preventing one party to a contract from doing something, which they would otherwise be perfectly entitled to do. In this blog, I am going to focus on the restrictive covenants known as “restraint of trade” clauses, which are typically inserted into employment contracts or contractor […]