Whilst the COVID-19 Government lockdown is easing and non-essential shops have been allowed to open, last week saw many retailers and corporate tenants struggling to meet their June Quarter Day payments. Whilst it is hoped that the gradually easing will assist businesses from a cash flow perspective, there is no denying that millions of commercial […]
The government has announced a new Help to Buy scheme to run from April 2021. It is restricted to first-time buyers and includes regional property price caps to ensure the scheme reaches people who need it most. There are no changes to the current Help to Buy equity loan scheme which runs to March 2021. […]
The Domestic Abuse Bill is currently at the report stage in the House of Commons. The government has announced a complete overhaul of how courts will deal with domestic abuse cases, which includes the following measures:- separate entrances, waiting rooms and the ability to give evidence from behind a screen for victims; greater powers for […]
What is an Advance Decision? An Advance Decision (sometime referred to as a Living Will) is a way for you to set down now the type of medical treatment you might refuse in the future. You must include all treatments you wish to exclude in the document drawn up. The Advance Decision must be clear […]
In the current climate many businesses are struggling, and if it wasn’t for the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS),commonly known as furlough, many would already have either reduced staff numbers or closed down. Many people view the furlough scheme as delaying the inevitable and that once the benefits of the scheme are reduced and […]
An application for financial remedies is a three-stage process and the First Appointment is the hearing that comes at the end of the first stage. When the court issues an application for financial remedies it will set a timetable for dealing with the application and you will receive a document called a Notice of First […]
There are clear signs that the property market is slowly starting to recover from the impact of Covid-19 as agents report an increase in new instructions and viewings. This is supported by an article in The Guardian which quotes property selling website Zoopla as noting that property sales in most of England have swiftly rebounded […]
The above regulations were set to come into force on 1st June 2020 requiring Landlords to obtain electrical certificates (in addition to the existing requirement for gas safety certificates and energy performance certificates). When will the regulations apply? The regulations will apply in England to all tenancies from 1st July 2020 and existing tenancies from […]
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has as expected this afternoon announced changes to the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (Furlough) and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme Here are those changes in outline. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (FURLOUGH) Companies wishing to make claims for new employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will not be […]
It has been revealed by charities ‘Protect’ and ‘Whistleblowers UK’ that some employers are committing fraud by using the Furlough scheme to make large amounts of money by falsely claiming that employees have been furloughed. These charities are reporting that this is becoming a growing problem where a minority of employers are claiming up to […]
