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Data PrivacyData privacy is about the protection of each individual’s personal data. Any business or organisation that has information about another person must only use it in a lawful, fair and transparent way, keep it only as long as necessary and keep it secure.
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Distribution Agreements
A distribution agreement is a contract between a supplier of goods or services and a distributor of them. It is a low risk way of expanding into new markets and territories without having to make a significant capital investment.
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Employment Contracts and Directors Service Agreements
An employment contract governs the relationship between an employer and its employee and sets out the key rights, duties and obligations of each party.
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Employment Tribunal Claims Procedure
This guide provides a general overview of the Employment Tribunal claims process in England and Wales when starting or defending a claim. It is not comprehensive.
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Equine Sports
Horses can be very valuable assets. They come with inherent risk, however, and are subject to many variable factors. That is why transactions involving horses should be agreed in as much detail as possible at the outset.
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Family Investment Companies
A Family Investment Company (FIC) is a company that holds investments for a family and is tailored to that family’s requirements. It has become an alternative structure to a discretionary trust, albeit that an FIC and a discretionary trust can also work well when used together for investing as well as holding assets that are used by a trust’s beneficiaries.
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Film Production Agreements
A film production agreement is a contract between an investor or client and a production company. It sets out the basis on which a production company will produce a film and describes the stages of that process.
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Fraud
Fraud involves deliberately misleading another person in order to either make a gain for themself or cause that person to incur a loss. Fraud itself is not a type of claim. Instead, it is a way of describing multiple types of claim.
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How Courts Interpret Contracts
Interpreting a contract is the process of working out precisely what it says. Words and phrases can have many interpretations so how they apply to a situation is not always clear.
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How Judges Find Facts
This process is known as finding facts and this guide explains the approach taken in civil as opposed to criminal cases.
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Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property (known as IP) is what you create using your mind. This can include your brand, product names, original work and more.
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Litigation Procedure
This guide provides a general overview of the litigation process in England and Wales when starting or defending a civil claim. It is not comprehensive.
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Mediation
Mediation is a way of resolving disputes by agreeing a settlement instead of litigation, meaning starting court proceedings to obtain a judgment.
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Non-Disclosure Agreements
A non-disclosure agreement is a contract that allows you to share confidential information with another person. That person cannot then share it with anyone else and can only use it for a permitted purpose.
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Private Wealth
Private wealth is hard to generate and preserve. A popular and established way of holding it is through a trust. A trust transfers control of your wealth to trustees and manages its transition to the next generation. It can be combined with the use of limited companies, partnerships and other types of legal entity.
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Shareholders' Agreements
A shareholders’ agreement sets out the rules of the relationship between the shareholders of a company as well as the relationship between the shareholders and the company itself.
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Sponsorship Agreements
A sponsorship agreement is a contract between a sponsor and a person, team or event under which the sponsor pays for marketing rights.
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Trusts
A trust is a legal relationship. It is created by a person called a settlor who transfers assets to trustees. The trustees hold those assets for the benefit of other people, known as beneficiaries.
Guides
We know that the law is sometimes intimidating and it can be difficult to know where to start. We have produced a number of guides to give you a starting point.
The following introductory guides provide a summary of some issues which often arise in practice. We have prepared them to give you a starting point so that you are better informed about what sort of issues you might need to consider.
It is important to take advice, make decisions and prepare documents based on your specific situation and so these guides should not be relied upon as advice. For further information and to discuss the specific facts of your matter, please contact us.
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