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How to protect your home, land or other property from fraud
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to…
Protecting your intellectual property makes it easier to take legal action…
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
What to do if you think someone's used your intellectual property without permission - types of intellectual property abuse, help resolving disputes and further legal action you can take.
Find out what you can do to stop deer causing damage to your property.
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.
This section provides more information and details of safeguarding along the High Speed Two (HS2) route.
You must join a client money protection scheme if you're a property agent in the private rented sector in England and you hold clients' money.
Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
Using deposit protection schemes - the official schemes, information you must give tenants, what happens if you do not protect a deposit, disputes and advice
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in India.
Guidance on the duties and powers housing authorities have to protect the personal property of an applicant who is homeless.
From 28 June 2022, the leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England have come into effect.
Information relating to the Building Safety Act, which was granted Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
How to prepare for a flood: who to contact, how to protect your property, get insurance.
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