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  • 05 August 2020
  • Commercial Real Estate

Struggling to increase your covers? A guide for food entrepreneurs during the pandemic

Whether you own a restaurant or are looking to open one it is crucial to ensure you keep your tables full, especially in an uncertain market. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted trade with not just lockdown but also home-working causing a loss of passing trade and cautious customers also cancelling bookings.

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  • 05 August 2020
  • Employment

“Self-employed” hairdresser found to be employee

The Claimant, a hairdresser, sought to pursue claims for unfair dismissal, notice pay, holiday pay and redundancy pay following At a Preliminary Hearing to determine her status, the Judge found the Claimant was in fact an employee for the following reasons:

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  • 29 July 2020
  • Employment

Settlement offers and redundancies: the cost of getting it wrong

Many businesses view settlement offers as a way to cut short usual redundancies timeframe in order to preserve resources for those jobs which remain viable. However, it is crucial that, before making any such offers, employers understand the potential legal risks of not carrying out fair and lawful consultation.

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  • 28 July 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Series A – Equity Investment Landscape

In the second of our series on different stages of funding through the business life cycle, this webinar by Stuart Mullins, Clarkslegal, and venture capital investor Naoki Kamimaeda, Global Brains explores the Series A equity investment.

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  • 28 July 2020
  • Commercial Real Estate

Radical planning changes to come into Force

From 1st September 2020 radical reforms will be made to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (“the Use Classes Order”). The changes will be the biggest of their kind since the Use Classes Order was introduced over 30 years ago, and form part of a range of measures introduced by the Government to cut planning ‘red tape’ and allow greater flexibility of land-use to adapt to the changing needs of our high streets and communities.

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  • 24 July 2020
  • Immigration

The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa route opens from January 2021

The UK government has finally published official guidance on the new Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa.

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