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How to Keep Your Personal Affairs Protected with Ongoing Legal Support
Without ongoing legal oversight, important documents and arrangements can quietly fall out of date, leaving you exposed when it matters most.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…
Who Owns AI Output? A Plain-English Guide for UK Businesses
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?
Leicester City’s Points Deduction – Why did it happen?
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?
Why Hourly Legal Services Are No Longer Fit For Your Modern Business Needs
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…
Served with a Freezing Order in the UK: What Should You Do Next?
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.
Freezing Orders in the UK: How to Stop a Debtor Hiding or Moving Assets
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…
Sale of National HGV Driving School, Securing Deferred Consideration
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…
High Court Injunction Secured to Protect Confidential Information and Company Property
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…
Protecting Founders and Safeguarding Control: The Power of Good and Bad Leaver Provisions
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…
UK Autumn Budget 2025 Review
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.
Fixed-Fee Legal Support: Why a Membership Model Beats Pay-As-You-Go Legal Services
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…
Sheffield Wednesday Enters Administration: What It Means and Lessons from Morecambe FC
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…
The Shifting Landscape of Construction Law: Lessons from the Landmark BLO Seminar
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…
Professional Negligence Dispute Highlights Importance of Proper Legal Procedures
…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…
Defending a Business Legacy: Ian Coupland Leads Six-Day Trial to Victory
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…
Turning Complex Website Sales into Seamless Deals
At first glance, it was straightforward: sell the two sites and the associated assets. But once negotiations began, a central question emerged — and it changed the entire structure of the deal…
Why is the first finding of a ‘relevant liability’ under s130(3) of the Building Safety Act 2022 critical?
Without the finding of a relevant liability by the court, a judge has no jurisdiction to make a BLO. Until recently, there had been no judicial guidance as to what constitutes a building safety risk for the purposes of establishing a relevant liability…
What is a Building Liability Order and What Does it Do?
Find out in this article what a Building Liability Order (“BLO”) is and how it is ground-breaking in creating accountability for defective construction works since the Grenfell Tower tragedy…
A Business’s Guide to TUPE in M&A Law
For businesses involved in mergers, acquisitions, or restructuring, compliance with TUPE is essential. Compliance also promotes trust and stability within the workforce, maintaining efficiency, and managing the risk of legal disputes.
Landmark Building Safety Act 2022 Judgment: The First Building Liability Order
381 Southwark Park Road RTM Company Ltd and others v Click St Andrews Ltd and another [2024] EWHC 3179 (TCC): Adam Benedict successful in obtaining the first Building Liability Order and Information Orders under the Building Safety Act 2022