Insights

23rd November 2017

Katie Pickering discusses the recent increase in the base interest rate and why business owners may want to take precautionary measures to protect their businesses.

23rd November 2017

The recent TCC judgment in Imperial Chemical Industries Limited v Merit Merrell Technology Limited [2017] EWHC 1763 does not break new ground but it does contain some interesting observations concerning the phenomena of the ‘smash and grab’ adjudication, and it suggests that it is worth revisiting the case law which has developed since the amendments to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 introduced by the Local Democracy Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (generically, ‘the Act’). By the end of this article, most of you will, I hope, resolve to re-assess whether your application processes are robust enough to allow you to get the benefit of those amendments. Some of you may even be aggrieved at the qualifications the courts have introduced where the validity of applications are concerned. I also make a prediction about the future of such adjudications.

23rd November 2017

Alessandro Morgan-Gianni discusses why the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 is so important and explains both what a construction contract is and what construction operations are

21st November 2017

The corporate team has acted for the owners of Bergson & Eaton Ltd as they transferred the business to the existing management team as part of a Management Buy Out (MBO).

20th November 2017

The corporate team have acted for a new management team in their acquisition of the trade and assets of Bath based Regency Laundry.

17th November 2017

Gloucestershire-based law firm, BPE Solicitors, is again celebrating with the release of Chambers UK annual rankings ; listing eight of the firm's lawyers in the top three tiers.