When an injury at work occurs, who is to blame? If the incident gives rise to a claim, blame is usually assigned to the defendant. However, a lot of cases aren’t so cut and dried, they may well be more complicated. It is likely that contributory negligence will be found if the accident can is partly or wholly your fault.

The big question is, how can you take part and how can you make sure you do it right? Whilst some retailers are offering genuine deals, there are others who aren’t in fact offering customers the bargain they claim to be offering.

On 19 June 2020 the Government published the Code of Practice for commercial property relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Code is voluntary rather than mandatory. It’s objective is to provide a level of support to all those stakeholders in the commercial property sector. This ranges from customers and occupiers, through to the landlords and lenders.

Overage provisions take many different forms to accommodate a variety of scenarios. The common theme among all though is they cover the situation where the parties to a property transaction agree that the circumstances justify the seller being entitled to further payments in relation to the property being sold, at some point in the future. The parties are free to set the terms of the overage provisions which will often be shaped by current market conditions and the respective bargaining strengths of the parties involved.

While many deals are done on the basis of a handshake or a phone call and the parties end up happy, asking if written Terms of Business are important is like asking whether you should have insurance or whether we need a highway code.

GDPR is a European directive and its aim was to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe, so how will it apply to the UK if we leave the EU and leave with no deal? How should you prepare for such scenarios?