A Litigator’s Guide to … Shareholder Disputes

Shareholder disputes can be very damaging to a business, causing a raft of practical issues including deadlocks in decision making, impact to wider staff morale and poor business performance. As…

A Litigator’s Guide to … Terminating Contracts

There will be times when you want to bring a deteriorating business relationship to an end. Whether this deterioration happens slowly or due to a catastrophic event, the immediate focus is typically…

Why Every Successful Business Needs A Risk Register

The benefits of a well-maintained risk register are extensive and broad, from identifying and assessing risks to facilitating strategic decision-making and crisis preparedness.

Why you MUST have a Partnership Agreement

What is crucial is that anyone entering into a traditional partnership understands the consequences of not having a Partnership Agreement which overrides the legislation, namely, you will be subject…

The total cost of not managing project risks

Not having a risk management plan can lead to financial costs; however, there are also intangible consequences that are not always immediately apparent.

Defining and excluding Consequential Loss in a contract

Although decided in 1854, the same year Florence Nightingale was sent to the Crimean War and Hard Times by Charles Dickens was published, the test for what constitutes direct and indirect…

How to recognise and respond to a GDPR Subject Access Request

Recognising and responding to a UK GDPR subject access request (SARs) is a key part of data protection and privacy law compliance. It is also one of the most common ways employees encounter customers…

5 expert tips to help SMEs manage the cost of doing business as prices rise

Small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are innovative, flexible, tenacious and creative. We’ve seen these strengths first-hand: throughout the coronavirus pandemic and right now, as the cost of…