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Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
How to tax a beneficial loan arrangement for a director or employee.
Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
How to protect your company from scams and fraud and how to report it.
Find out what checks you should complete and how to report potential fraud if you’re an agency, employer or worker.
Apply to come to the UK as a representative of a news agency, newspaper or news agency and you’re from outside the EEA and Switzerland - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, extend and switch.
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
Learn how to identify misleading invoices and what you should do if you receive one.
Guidance on making a disclosure protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, (whistleblowing) to the Certification Officer
To protect your patent outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
How retained GEA licences authorise the export of certain controlled items to specified countries.
Advice and information for MOT garages and testers.
If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
This guide provides information on statutory derecognition of a trade union
How to remove an overseas entity's registration from the Register of Overseas Entities.
Reports of investigations into the financial affairs of trade unions. All decisions are in PDF format.
Find out if a business is, or has been, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to provide claims management services
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