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Jul 2023
General overview In the commercial courts of England and Wales, it is long-established that the general principle on costs recoverability is that costs should ‘follow the event’, meaning that the winner in litigation will generally recover their legal costs from the losing party. Costs awards and the amount of the award are ultimately subject to…
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Jul 2023
As reported in recent days by mainstream media, firms offering ‘quickie’ will writing services and divorces are being investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) following numerous complaints. The CMA intends to examine online divorce services which have become more popular since lockdown as well as complaints that vulnerable customers were pressured into signing…
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Jul 2023
The Sentencing Council has published 12 new and revised sentencing guidelines for offenders convicted of motoring offences in England and Wales. The new and revised guidelines, which apply to adults only, will come into effect on 1 July 2023. What have they revised? The changes include updated versions of six current guidelines that were…
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Jul 2023
What is it? The Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/753) came into effect on July 4, 2023. This is accomplished through the Building Safety Act of 2022, Sections 126, 127, 128 and 129. These regulations carry out the Responsible Actors Scheme (RAS) of the government, which prevents certain residential property…
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Jul 2023
At present, the Intestacy Rules (which is the framework which dictates who receives an estate where someone passes away without a Will), provide that if a married couple have children, then the spouse only receives the first £270,000 of assets, with the rest passing equally between children. Recent changes to the law provide that from…
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Jul 2023
In this article, Sarah Hemmings and Kyrran Dearnley-Porter in our Corporate and Commercial department explain what Heads of Terms (“HOT”) are and consider the benefits of both sides to a commercial transaction agreeing and executing Heads of Terms as a preliminary step. A HOT document, sometimes known as a Letter of Intent or Memorandum of…
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