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The Business Secretary Alok Sharma has proposed a relaxation to the current insolvency rules.
Due to COVID-19, tenants are approaching landlords to request…
Following the government’s recently announced Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, further (and much needed) guidance has been published.
This note sets out how the Coronavirus Act 2020 (“the Act”) affects both business and residential tenancies.
The UK Government has recently published official and detailed advice…
The introduction of the new Electronic Communications Code in December 2017 was a long overdue update to legislation.
As the outbreak of COVID-19 has intensified, the UK art market, an inherently international industry, which thrives on both its domestic and global events, has felt the unprecedented effects.
We have been working with a whole range of businesses to help them address the many commercial issues thrown up by coronavirus.
It has been confirmed that heritage properties usually open to the public in order to secure conditional exemption from inheritance tax should not view closure due to the coronavirus guidance as a breach of undertaking.
The Coronavirus Act 2020 (“the Act”) was enacted yesterday (25 March 2020)…
The rules which brought indirect holdings of UK homes of foreign domiciliaries into the inheritance tax net from April 2017 also catch overseas loans made by such individuals to finance UK residential property interests as well as assets.
Before the first incarnation of the UK’s Trust Register has fully bedded in, the government now has to implement changes required by the EU’s Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5MLD).
In terms of public spending, the Budget has been completely overtaken by events arising from the Coronavirus pandemic.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting everyone’s ability to move freely around the globe including to and from the UK.
On 20 March 2020, the UK government announced an unprecedented wage guarantee scheme in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The disruption caused by the coronavirus has accelerated over the past few days and the future impact of the outbreak remains uncertain.
As governments around the world put in place measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 and protect the most vulnerable from infection, individuals are adapting to a new way of life.
A recent Court of Appeal ruling that a trustee can’t use privilege to withhold documents requested by a beneficiary will have a limited impact due to a 2018 update to the U.K.’s data protection law.
After waiting nearly 18 months for a Budget, the newly appointed chancellor’s first outing proved to be one of the quietest for years in terms of tax changes for private clients.
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