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Numerous professional healthcare businesses, such as care home operators, are structured as limited companies. In many circumstances, such companies have a number of shareholders, and regulating their relationship can be...

Most people these days are aware of Lasting powers of attorney (LPAs), either having written one for themselves or having dealt with their parents’.  They fall into two categories ‘health...

The principle of reflective loss was established in the case of Prudential Assurance Co Limited v Newman Industries Limited (No. 2) [1982] Ch 204. The rule states that a shareholder...

Figures released by HMRC show that it had received 6,749 reports about fraudulent claims under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”). On 28 July HMRC published two new guidance documents...

Debenhams Ottaway, award-winning law firm in St Albans and Radlett, promotes one of its rising stars, Robyn Adams. Robyn, a lawyer in the dispute resolution team, joined in 2016 as...

We continue to monitor the case of Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson- Blake, otherwise known as “the Mencap case” following our series of recent articles on this complex dispute, which...

Award-winning law firm, Debenhams Ottaway, based in St Albans and Radlett raises over £4,500 for, You Okay, Doc?, a charity supporting doctors’ mental health. As we all got to grips...

In these unprecedented last few months, the insolvency industry has faced some dramatic changes in a very short space of time. Following various conversations with insolvency practitioners and insolvency lawyers,...

Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a significant amount of tax that must be paid if you buy property or land over a certain price in England. In July 2020,...

With the lockdown restrictions easing, and the economy beginning to return to some form of normality, many companies are planning for the recovery of affected business. Unfortunately, for some this...