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Applying to discharge restrictive covenants

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We provide a guide to practical benefits of substantial value or advantage when applying to discharge restrictive covenants

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Are your business’s terms and conditions enforceable?

Commercial contracts and agreements
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Failure to highlight onerous terms to your customer might mean that your terms and conditions cannot be enforced.

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Before, during and after – Environment Agency prosecution and orders show importance of early advice

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Our regulatory team regularly acts for farmers, land owners and businesses engaging with the Environment Agency and local authorities with regards to allegations of environmental pollution. Contact us online today.

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Bonus or backfire: Professional sport employment contracts & bonus awards

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Bonus schemes are an important part of the employment relationship. In professional sport, contractual bonus schemes often trigger significant bonus distributions.

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Changes on the high street – employers get informed

Retail & leisure
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Kathryn Walters, a senior associate in the employment team at Clarke Willmott LLP, looks at key employment law considerations for retailers in the current market.

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Clock ticking on cohabitation reform, says Clarke Willmott

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“The clock is ticking” on Government plans to reform the legal treatment of cohabiting couples, according to leading family lawyer Caroline Young.

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Coronation Street storyline – controlling and coercive behaviour

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Controlling and coercive behaviour is subtle and occurs over a prolonged period of time. In the majority of cases the behaviour has slowly escalated over a long period of time to the extent the sufferer is genuinely unaware of what is happening as it becomes a normal part of the relationship.

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Count-down to identity verification for directors and PSCs and new rules for company registers

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If you are a company director there are changes, soon to be implemented, at Companies House which will impact you. Companies House recently announced that 18 November 2025 is D-Day for mandatory identity verification for directors and persons with significant control (PSCs).

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Courts provide some clarity on pay less notices

Construction
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A recent case in the Technology and Construction Court has shed some very welcome light on a fairly obscure part of the Construction Act relating to the correct timing for issuing Pay Less Notices.

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Do I really need a shareholders’ agreement?

Corporate and commercial law
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A shareholders’ agreement gives you an opportunity to discuss and reach an agreement on these, and many other situations, with your co-founders at an early stage.

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Employment rights recap: Elite sportswomen and pregnancy – Entitlement to a risk assessment

Sport
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In the UK, pregnant employees are legally entitled to a risk assessment in the workplace to ensure their health and safety, as well as that of their unborn child. This entitlement applies equally to employed elite sportswomen.

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