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Prepare for the Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims

Double Trouble and the Government Response

Usually houses are sold as freeholds where a purchaser buys the building and the land it stands on outright. In some cases, houses are sold as leasehold.  This may be appropriate for some houses for example because they are on National Trust land.

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport publishes Data Protection Bill statement of intent

A few days after we wrote about wide-ranging changes to European data protection law coming into force in May 2018, under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the UK government published a statement of intent regarding plans to introduce a UK Data Protection Bill.

Concurrent, Overriding and Reversionary Leases: if you're gonna say it, say it right

Lawyers do sometimes make life difficult for themselves. Let's take lease classification as an example. The same lease may be variously described as a concurrent lease, a lease of the reversion and an overriding lease, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly, and, to complicate matters further, there are also reversionary leases, which may be leases of the reversion.

Meet The Forkers - Bitcoin back in the news

In 2017, it is Bitcoin that is back in the news.

HMRC once again accepting notifications of options to tax land and buildings by email

Having previously advised that only postal applications would be accepted, HMRC’s website has now revised its guidance to confirm that notifications of options to tax land and buildings can be submitted to an email address ([email protected]) as well as by fax or post.

Wide-ranging changes to European Data Protection Law to come into force in May 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted at the EU level in April 2016 and will replace the current UK Data Protection Act 1998 on 25 May 2018.

You say it best when you say nothing at all….5 things to know about replies to commercial property enquiries

In a typical commercial property transaction, the seller/ landlord will provide the buyer/ tenant with replies to CPSEs, and often, replies to additional enquiries.

Further expansion of the 'People with Significant Control' regime confirmed

In May we advised on the changes to the UK's existing 'People with Significant Control' (PSC) regime.

ICO updates subject access code to reflect recent Court of Appeal decisions

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has updated its subject access code of practice to reflect developments in Court of Appeal judgments given in early 2017.