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Emma Loveday-Hill

Data Protection Update November 2021

Emma Loveday-Hill | 11th November 2021
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (now known as the UK GDPR since January 2021 following the end of the Brexit transition period) has been in effect for over three years.  In September, the Government began a public consultation on…
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Graham Mead

Government announces relaxation of Covid Corporate Insolvency protections

Graham Mead | 8th October 2021
The Government relaxed the protections that it introduced following the start of the first lockdown in March 2020. The changes will apply from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022 and it is anticipated that they will lead to an increase in winding ups…
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You plonker, Rodney! Lawful act economic duress in construction

| 27th September 2021
Here is a common situation in the construction industry: a contractor (let’s call him “Del Boy”) engages a sub-contractor (who we’ll call “Rodney”) to work on a project to refurbish Nelson Mandela House (“NMH”). During the course of NMH, Del Boy…
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Georgina Rayment

I Ask: "Disclosure?"​, You Say: "Non!"​

Georgina Rayment | 27th September 2021
I have (so far) had two truly jaw-dropping moments in my litigation career. The first was writing on the off-chance to a bank with a jumble of numbers on a torn piece of paper, scrawled by an elderly and vulnerable client, hoping it might be an…
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