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April 16, 2025

Should I Trade Mark My Business Name?

Registering one’s trade marks delivers significant business benefits for brand owners. A registration provides a “monopoly” for your particular mark in respect of the goods and services for which it is registered.

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April 16, 2025

Personal Liabilities of Directors Under Companies Act

In England and Wales, the vast majority of incorporated businesses are private companies limited by shares or limited liability partnerships (LLPs). These structures are favoured in the UK as both LLPs and limited companies shelter the personal assets of their members (partners in an LLP, shareholders in a limited company) in the event of a liability of the entity itself. However, there are still a number of personal risks associated with the operation of these businesses.

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April 3, 2025

Calculating Holiday Pay: An Employer’s Guide

One area of uncertainty has always been the extent to which an annual bonus (whether for individual or company performance or a combination of factors) should be included in the holiday pay calculation.

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March 7, 2025

FCA Money Laundering Investigations and Prosecutions - Investigations into failures of MLROs

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plays a crucial role in overseeing the UK’s financial services industry, ensuring that firms adhere to regulations designed to prevent financial crime, including money laundering. Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) are pivotal in this framework, responsible for detecting and reporting suspicious activity to safeguard against money laundering.

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January 30, 2025

Interpol Silver Notices – A Silver Bullet for Asset Recovery?

The inaugural Silver Notice, requested by Italy in relation to assets belonging to a senior member of the mafia, was welcomed by INTERPOL General Secretary, Valdeny Urquiza, who laid bare the scale of the challenge when commenting that “… 99 per cent of criminal assets remain unrecovered.”

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January 30, 2025

Recovery of Cryptoassets – A Bold New Approach?

At first blush, it might be considered that this case marks a new dawn for enforcement authorities demonstrating their willingness to seek high value recovery orders and to pursue aggressive litigation tactics, including applications for summary judgement; however, it seems more likely that the DPP was encouraged and indeed emboldened by the exceptional factual matrix and the Defendant’s litigation conduct.

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January 14, 2025

SkyKick v Sky – Supreme Court Case Summary

The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in SkyKick v Sky found that the Court of Appeal were wrong to overturn the High Court’s decision that Sky had acted in bad faith when registering some of their broad trade mark registrations in relation to the specifications.

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December 19, 2024

Andrew Tate forfeits £2m following tax evasion finding

The Court found that the funds and cryptocurrency held by the Tate brothers are the proceeds of a deliberate and dishonest cheat of the revenue (HMRC).

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Should I Trade Mark My Business Name?

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Personal Liabilities of Directors Under Companies Act

Insight

Calculating Holiday Pay: An Employer’s Guide

Insight

FCA Money Laundering Investigations and Prosecutions - Investigations into failures of MLROs

Insight

Interpol Silver Notices – A Silver Bullet for Asset Recovery?

Insight

Recovery of Cryptoassets – A Bold New Approach?

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SkyKick v Sky – Supreme Court Case Summary

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Andrew Tate forfeits £2m following tax evasion finding

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