AIM & OFEX Listings
Commercial Property
Company Commercial
Employment Law
Insolvency
IT & E-Commerce Law
Leisure & Property Management
Litigation
Services to Lenders

AIM & OFEX Listings

• SGH acts on reverse takeover for super yacht company
• SGH acts for VOIP telecoms firm Atelis Plc in 5m share AIM listing

Commercial Property

• Equity Release – A missed Opportunity?  Mortgage Finance Gazette, July 2009. Ross Milnes gives an insight into the complexities of the equity release market.  To view the full article please click here(PDF)

• "An Equitable Life" Article by Ross Milnes, Legal Executive Journal - September 2008
• "Please Release Me" Article by Ross Milnes, Legal Executive Journal - August 2008

• July 2007 - Equity Release Newsletter - Regulation of Home Reversion Plans (HTML | PDF) New!

• Consultation on the use of upward only Rent Review Clauses (pdf)

• Taking it personally. The need for clarity in Development Agreements (pdf)

• Reform of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

• Consent to Assign and the need for speed when considering applications for consent to assign leases

• Land Registration Act 2002 (Protection of Third Party Interests)

• Commonhold or Leasehold? A Question for Developers

• How a Landlord may unwittingly release a guarantor of all liability

• Insurance exclusions contained in residential leases: are they acceptable to mortgage lenders?

• Consent to Sublet and the Need For Speed-Mount Eden v Folia (PDF)

• Contracts For Sale-Nweze v Nwoko (PDF)

• Duty of Care owed by Receivers-Silven Properties

• Land Registration Act 2002-ADVERSE POSSESSION

• New Asbestos Regulations

• NEW rules on Business Tenancies from 1ST JUNE 2004

• Rent Review Appeal Cases

Company Commercial

• SGH LLP acts for McGee Group in acquisition of Bedrock Crushing

• New Landscape for CGT in share sales: Abolition of Taper Relief New!

• New Year's Resolutions: Companies Act 2006

• Human rights and commercial reality: how irreconcilable are they?

• New data Protection Act: greater emphasis on individual rights and PUBLIC awareness

• A presence on the web: 5 STEPS TO WORLDWIDE BUSINESS

• Can a third party interfere in your contractual arrangements?

• Branding - Make a Name for Yourself

• Issue of Copyright
  
  

Employment Law

• Looking the part - Lookism in the workplace discrimination or a fact of life? New Law Journal, 11 September 2009

  It is a commonly held belief that there is now a culture of “lookism” in most workplaces in that staff are recruited, promoted and retained either on an arbitrary view of their attractiveness or on the basis of how their appearance best matches the image their employer wishes to present.  Article by Helen Crossland, Associate, Employment Law.  To read the full article please click here

   

• “Are eco warriors holding employers to ransom?” asks Caroline Doran, Employment Partner at Sprecher Grier Halberstam in the New Law Journal June 2009.   

  Caroline Doran writes that Nicholson v Grainger Plc is a pioneering case of which all employers should be made aware as it could have far reaching (and expensive) implications for their businesses. In Nicholson the employment tribunal recognised for the first time that an individual’s views about climate change were capable of being protected under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.  To read Caroline Doran’s New Law Journal article in full please clink on the link HERE (PDF)
   

• Employment Law Newsletters New!

• Proposed changes for employment agencies and employment businesses New!

• Employment Law Newsletter on Restrictive Covenants (PDF) New!

• Age Discrimination - November 2005

• Current issues facing HR Directors regarding employment law - November 2005

• Workplace Intimacy - November 2005

• Setting up a creative studio - Sept 2005

• Should I stay or should I go - contractual implications of changing jobs - Jan 2005

• Swearing and Discretionary Bonuses - Jan 2005

• Equal Opportunities in Recruitment - December 2004

• Things to look for when you receive your job offer - December 2004

• Changes to Discrimination Legislation - October 2004

• Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 - SGH launches Fixed Price Documentation Pack for Employment Businesses

• Unfair Dismissal awards - cap increase - October 2004

• Can Employees insist on home working?

• Effective Management of Stress at Work

• THE KINGSMILL REPORT An overview of the findings and it’s relationship to existing equal opportunities legislation

Insolvency and Corporate Recovery

• Tempers flare as the phoenix rises (Event Magazine Dec 08/Jan 09 issue)

• Use-It-Or-Lose-it! 1st April 2007, Insolvency - The Three Year Rule New!

• Insolvency Newsflash - Phoenix companies take a blow

• s313 Charges - Doodes Reversed Newsflash (pdf)

• Moving from administration into creditors' voluntary winding up (Pdf)

• Does an Administrator have to pay rates (Pdf)

• The Spectrum Judgment and Liquidators' Remuneration - We analyse the implications of this key judgement

• European Insolvency Regulation Council Regulation

• Enterprise Act 2002: personal insolvency provisions (pdf)

• Matrimonial proceedings & Bankruptcy

• UNCITRAL Model Law on cross-border insolvency

• Bankruptcy & The Matrimonial Home

• Keynote on the Insolvency Act 2000

• Duty of Care owed by Receivers-Silven Properties (PDF)

IT & E-Commerce Law

• Minimise Exposure to Project Cancellations (link to weblaw site) New!
• 7 key issues of Domain Name Disputes (link to weblaw)
• 7 key issues of IT Contracts (link to weblaw)
• 7 key issues of IT Disputes (link to weblaw)
• Data Capacity Limitations and their effect on internet usage.
• Email Security and Usage.
• Pay Per Click Campaign - Fraud Abundant.
• Financial Marketing - Opting in & out.
• Suing Bad Developers - Is it really worthwhile?
• Passing Off and Domain Names - Use of Similar or Identical Domain Name by Competitor
• The link between Professional Indemnity Cover and Limitation of Liability Clauses - pdf
• Blogs - The legal issues
• Mobile Computing - some legal issues
• Email Retention Policies - DOS and DONT'S
• How to Contract online
• Online Casinos - A new era?
• Domain Names - Use Them or Lose Them
• Transferring Customer Data Abroad

Leisure & Property Management

• Agent does not need to be "effective cause of sale" (Newsflash) New!

• House of Lords rules in favour of Inntrepreneur in Crehan case (Press Release)

• SGH / Crehan beer tie case heard in House of Lords

• New Beer Ties Case (PDF)

• The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) (RRFSO) (PDF)

• The Licensing Act 2003: Questions and Answers

• Reform of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

• Consent to Assign and the need for speed when considering applications for consent to assign leases

• A CONTRACT FOR SALE? - NWEZE V NWOKU-[2004] EWCA Civ379 - May 2004

• The impact of the Disability Discrimination Act on Licensed Premises

• Health and Safety - Impact of new Health and Safety requirements on Licensees

• Relief from Forfeiture

• Breach of Ties (PDF Document)

• The need for Clarity in Development Agreements - September 2004 (PDF Document)

• - Withholding Consent to Assign: Old English Inns PLC V Brightside

• Change of Use - Restaurants/Pubs/Takeaways

• Licensing Act 2003: A Summary

• Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004

• Consent to Sublet and the Need For Speed-Mount Eden v Folia

• Contracts For Sale-Nweze v Nwoko

• Duty of Care owed by Receivers-Silven Properties

• Land Registration Act 2002-ADVERSE POSSESSION

• New Asbestos Regulations

• NEW rules on Business Tenancies from 1ST JUNE 2004

• Rent Review Appeal Case

• Enforcement of Development Agreements

Litigation

• The tribunal system was last reviewed over 40 years ago: is it time for a face lift?

• A reminder to solicitors recently arose out of a professional negligence case

Services to Lenders

• Gather all the evidence – Professional negligence”  Article by Lee Stafford, Mortgage Finance Gazette - March 2009

• Mortgage Shortfall - Limitation

• Mortgages: Buy to Let Repossession and Possession in Practice

• Will Professionals ever know what their Duty of Care is?

• Repossessing a mortgaged property: how difficult can it get?

• Claims For Money Judgement