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Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...
Finding the right advice and advisor is the first step in making the best decisions for your invention or business.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
The Insolvency and Companies List was formerly known as the Companies Court. We handle cases relating to the insolvency of companies, including: petitions to wind up a company applications to unfreeze bank accounts or challenge a winding up petition applications...
Sought comments on the government’s work to improve the company law framework and areas where more work may be done that are under consideration…
Even the best-run business can face unexpected challenges and solvency issues. It's important you recognise the signs and understand your duties as a director.
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
The Business List contains three separate sub-lists: business financial services regulatory and pensions business. Business We deal with a wide range business disputes, often with an international dimension. Frequently these concern a business structure (company, LLP, LP, partnership etc) including:...
Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints
How to put your limited company or limited liability partnership into administration - what administration is, appointing an administrator, when administration ends
Find out about making investments for someone who does not have mental capacity.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
Ordinary people mistreated or wronged by big, powerful companies will have a better chance of bringing them to court to access justice, thanks to plans unveiled today (4 March 2024).
The Company Names Tribunal practice direction provides the framework for the management of proceedings brought before the Tribunal.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
When HMRC will issue a joint and several liability notice to individuals involved in tax avoidance or tax evasion when their company has started, or is likely to start, insolvency.
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