Event: Future of Manufacturing 2018
Date: 5th October 2018 Time: 8.00 – 11.00 Location: Silverstone UTC, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TL Event details: The path to Brexit for UK businesses as yet remains unclear, however everyone is hard at work preparing to rise to the challeng …
Carphone Warehouse fined £400,000 after cyber-attack
Carphone Warehouse has recently received one of the most substantial fines recently issued by the ICO as a result of their failure to adequately secure their systems from a breach in 2015. The security breach resulted in over 3 million customers and 1, …
Brexit, pursued by a bear
“Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it” ― William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale In advance of the publication of their manifesto, Theresa May has unveiled an initial list of Conservative employment policies. Most strikingly, she has made a gua …
Automatic for the people – Breach of Auto-Enrolment Pensions means Everybody Hurts
The Pensions Act 2008 introduced legislation which required employers to provide pensions for their employees. The ‘Auto-Enrolment’ pension scheme means that employees are automatically required to deduct 3% of monies from an employee’s salary in to a …
The “Persons with Significant Control” (“PSC”) Register Regulations
From 26 June 2017 unlisted UK companies and LLPs must keep their “Register of People with Significant Control” continuously updated on the Companies House website. Previously it was only necessary to update Companies House once a year. If your use for …
Congratulations: Fischer D’Alton Limited
Five Sellers, four companies, and one month: Franklins Solicitors are pleased to have supported Fischer D’Alton Limited in its first acquisition of one of the UK’s fastest growing privately owned companies in the construction industry, ME Construction …
The Legal Side to Selling Your Business – Due Diligence Process
Recently I co-presented a workshop with Colin Howe of Hillier Hopkins. I handled the legal part of the workshop where we spoke to a number of business owners – keen to understand how to value their businesses and know what is involved in selling a busi …
Are you a Tenant with a Commercial Lease? Take a break not a trip to court
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We wish you a Merry “Swiftmas”
After Trade Marking “sick beat” earlier this year, Taylor Swift has now made a bid to Trade Mark “Swiftmas” and the stylised form of “1989” on her album cover in the United States. The singer has previously been successful in protecting her name, signa …
The consideration of Intellectual Property in insolvency
Where a company is experiencing extreme financial difficulties it is well known that such a company can be cash-flow insolvent, (i.e. they cannot pay their debts as they fall due), or balance sheet insolvent (the company’s liabilities outweigh their as …
