Starting a business can entail an extensive net of heavy weighing legal and financial considerations, not to mention the array of management decisions and marketing worries. This month Lawyer Monthly hears from Neil Williamson, Founder and Director of EM Law, on how his firm helps small enterprise businesses confront the pit of complexities they are […]
When you act on advice from a professional and things go wrong, you can seek redress, but time is against you. Often the problem is the point at which you discover your investment is now worthless or has attracted the attention of the tax authorities. But stories of pensioners losing their nest eggs or tax […]
Risk minimisation is the ultimate goal of insurance. Its purpose is to buy peace of mind and to soften the financial blow should the worst case scenario occur. Insurance claims can however, lead to complex coverage disputes and professional negligence claims and Lawyer Monthly speaks with Insurance Litigation Partner, Nicola Maher of Edwin Coe LLP, […]
Customs law, import and export formalities; if you import or export goods to or from the European Union, you will be forced to deal with them. Depending on origin, classification and value, import, anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties, and import VAT will be among the charges payable upon declaration. If Customs & Excise take the view […]
You’d have to go quite a long way to find someone who likes passwords. Typically, they’re an inconvenience at best. The only time most people even think about passwords is when they are forced to hit the ‘Forgotten password?’ button, at which point they already know they’ll never get the next 10 minutes of their […]
As Head of the Planning team at Burness Paull, a leading Scottish commercial law firm, our next expert has vast experience in the details of planning law and the progress therein. Here Elaine Farquharson-Black gives some insight into the development of planning law in Scotland over the last few years, with a complex history of […]
With an array of legal experience and varied sector backgrounds, from being an M&A lawyer in private practice, to a senior officer at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), our guest talks to Lawyer Monthly about the personal and professional rewards of being an Investment Funds lawyer and teaching this subject at Harvard Law […]
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