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Without ongoing legal oversight, important documents and arrangements can quietly fall out of date, leaving you exposed when it matters most. Ongoing legal support helps you stay protected, not just today, but throughout every stage of your life…
As AI tools become a staple in the workplace, many businesses and professionals are asking: when you use an AI tool under a licence to generate work product, whether for commercial, professional, or internal purposes, who actually owns the output and the resulting intellectual property?
This week, Leicester City Football Club was hit with a six-point deduction in the Championship. For the club and its fans currently in the midst of a relegation fight in the Championship, this is a major effect on their season but what has happened and why is a points deduction the consequence?
The legal market is changing because your needs are changing. Efficiency, clarity, predictability and proactive support now sit at the centre of your commercial success. The traditional retainer struggles to deliver these benefits. A well structured legal subscription service, such as the Adam Benedict Membership, gives you…
If you have the misfortune to be on the receiving end of the legal broadside that is a freezing order, the likelihood is that the Order itself will be many pages long and will have been formally delivered to you with hundreds of pages of supporting evidence and exhibited documents. You need expert legal advice, and fast.
If you move fast, all is not lost. One of the law’s most powerful remedies is the freezing injunction. The Court can freeze an individual or corporate debtor’s assets so they cannot readily be…
A key feature of the deal was deferred consideration payable after completion. Where a buyer is funded (or has existing lending arrangements), seller protections need to be structured so…
In a recent High Court injunction matter, Senior Associate Grace Jenkins successfully secured urgent injunctive relief to protect a client’s confidential information and recover company property following the dismissal of a former employee…
In a recent matter, our corporate team helped a founder navigate precisely this challenge. A shareholder who had been granted shares in the company sought to leave the business and, despite never paying for their shares, was pressing for a payout upon exit…
There was a lot of speculation around the Autumn 2025 Budget, particularly about whether we would see big tax rises across the board. In the end, the Chancellor stepped back from that. The headline income tax and VAT rates remain where they are, but the dial has been moved in other places.
As modern businesses demand more clarity, more control and more strategic input, savvy businesses are shifting towards legal subscriptions and fixed fee membership models. This shift is not a trend…
The recent administration of Sheffield Wednesday is a stark reminder of how quickly and drastically a club can ‘unravel’ when its financial posture declines or breaks down. It is far from an isolated case, however. Clubs will differ in size, but the mechanics of collapse are…
Recently, Adam Benedict partnered with Gatehouse Chambers to host a seminar that brought together leading voices from law, surveying, engineering, and finance to unpack what this case means for the future of construction disputes, liability, and compliance. The event was…
…the matter, which developed into a multi-million-pound dispute, served as a stark reminder of the critical importance of compliance with regulatory and administrative procedures…
Representation of the founder of a well-established estate agency in a high-stakes dispute against a former business partner. The case, which culminated in a six-day trial…