19 May 2022
As the height of the pandemic continues to recede, contractors still face several ongoing issues, including sky-high materials prices and staff shortages. Construction cost inflation in 2022 is currently unprecedented, and after having decades of price stability in the supply of labour and materials,…
Commercial
14 Mar 2022
On 21 February 2022, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial ("BEIS") published its awaited draft of The Competition Act 1998 (Vertical Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022 ("draft VABEO") which will replace retained EU law - the retained Vertical Agreements Block…
Commercial
04 Mar 2022
When an employee leaves your employment what do you do to ensure that they have returned all your confidential information? Most employers rely on either a contract of employment setting out the obligations on an employee to return company property on exit or on asking an employee to provide a written…
Commercial
28 Feb 2022
There have been a number of developments recently within Commercial law, from updates on electronic execution of documents, the Brexit Bill that has come into place and new cases that have come to light updating the law. We have provided a brief overview on each update below. Electronic Execution…
Commercial
28 Feb 2022
Smart contracts are said to be the next revolution of contracts. Although a smart contract sounds like a legal instrument, a smart contract is actually a computer program that performs a task when triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event. Smart contracts live on blockchain, which processes…
Commercial
21 Feb 2022
When establishing an eCommerce business, there are several factors that ought to be taken into consideration, such as business structure, market research and scalability, brand creation, and domain name registration. However, eCommerce businesses also have legal responsibilities just as much as any…
Commercial
27 Jan 2022
Michael Gove has written a letter to the residential property developer industry requiring developers to agree a plan of action by early March including remediating unsafe cladding on 11-18 metre buildings, currently estimated to be £4 billion. Developers are warned that they must pay to fix the…
Commercial
05 Nov 2021
Following the uncertainty of the pandemic as well as other factors such as Brexit, congested transport routes, rises in shipping costs, labour shortages and even climate change, UK builders have been exposed to a world-wide surge in demand for essential materials. Construction companies have revived…
Commercial
05 Nov 2021
In Blu-Sky Solutions Ltd v Be Caring Ltd [2021] EWHC 2619 a mobile phone supplier was not entitled to enforce a cancellation clause in its standard terms, since it was an overly onerous term which had not been fairly and reasonably drawn to the purchaser's attention before it had signed an order…
Commercial
18 Oct 2021
Rightly or wrongly, we're all coming to terms with the normality of goods shortages, and more recently due to lack of HGV drivers arising out of Covid and compounded by Brexit. We've heard of a number of businesses which have either had to close due to these shortages or default on supply and…
Commercial
