News archive: June 2022

• QualitySolicitors Parkinsonwright receives Lexcel re-accreditation
  Posted on June 30, 2022
  Parkinson Wright LLP has been re-accredited to the Law Society's Lexcel, Legal Practice Quality Mark.
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• Redeveloping commercial property around your tenant
  Posted on June 27, 2022
  Redeveloping parts of a building in your portfolio, to create a more flexible layout or perhaps add additional floors, can be a good way to enhance investment value. This is easiest in a vacant building, but you may have good tenants and want to preserve your income stream. If so, you must take the needs of your tenants into account when you are designing your development scheme so that you do not unfairly interfere with their rights under their leases.
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• QualitySolicitors Parkinson Wright shortlisted in 3 categories for the Worcestershire Law Society's 2022 Award Ceremony
  Posted on June 24, 2022
  The Worcestershire Law Society (WLS) Annual Awards Ceremony is open to all law firms in the Worcestershire area.
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• Employers - let’s talk about pay
  Posted on June 23, 2022
  The subject of pay is always a hot topic and requires sensitive handling. Employees feel they need more, due to the rising costs of living, or believe they deserve more due to increased responsibilities or experience. Meanwhile, employers are under pressure to cut costs while seeking to attract the best people with an attractive package.
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• Liability of individual partners for partnership debts
  Posted on June 22, 2022
  Running a business through a traditional partnership has many advantages, including the ability to keep financial information confidential, less onerous compliance with statutory rules for companies, and transparent tax treatment where partners are only taxed on the profits they receive, not on the overall profits generated by the business.
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• How green is your supply chain?
  Posted on June 16, 2022
  Becoming or working towards being a greener business is nothing new, but the pressures are mounting to take environmental issues more seriously as an important corporate responsibility, and to show real action and commitment beyond just marketing puff.
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• The dangers of pregnancy-related sepsis
  Posted on June 16, 2022
  Sepsis is one of the biggest causes of pregnancy-related deaths, with a 2019 study finding that this condition accounted for as many as 25 per cent of all pregnancy-related deaths in the UK.
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• Can a non-molestation order prevent someone bothering me?
  Posted on June 12, 2022
  Domestic abuse can impact men and women, of any age or race and is seen across all parts of society. Unfortunately, statistics from the Office for National Statistics reveal that domestic abuse is on the increase, with cases having risen by six per cent since 2020, and it now represents an astonishing 18 per cent of all reported crime in England and Wales.
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• Legal considerations if you are tempted to buy a holiday home
  Posted on June 9, 2022
  Summer is around the corner, and it is not uncommon to want to prolong that holiday feeling and dream of investing in a holiday home which allows you to return to your favourite spot more frequently. Holiday home ownership has boomed recently and in 2021 second homes accounted for more than 24,000 purchases.
  
  Many of these were on the coast or other areas of natural beauty, where house prices have also seen rapid growth.
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• Can I put a condition on a gift in my will?
  Posted on June 9, 2022
  Deciding who should inherit from you in your will, how much they will get and in what shares, are big decisions to make. This can be made more difficult if you have particular concerns about a beneficiary and whether the inheritance could be at risk.
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