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- Retirement and the DRA
- Revealed: the Gloucestershire Business Awards 2018 finalists
- Review of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
- Rewriting the employment contract
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- Selling a business? Don’t ignore these legal considerations
- Selling land for development
- Selling to customers? Be aware of the new regulations
- Senior appointment to our wills, probate & trusts team
- Service charge recovery delay
- Settlement agreements – what employers need to know
- Severe penalties for asbestos offences
- Shadow and de facto directors – are you at risk?
- Share purchase agreements – enforceability of onerous clauses
- Share purchase agreements – when is a warranty a representation?
- Shareholder disputes in family businesses
- Shareholders’ agreements – Why do you need one?
- Sharing secrets to success with the lawyers of tomorrow
- Shoot VAT
- Short back and sides – discrimination legislation
- Should a charity enter into an authorised guarantee agreement?
- Should you be following in Google’s footsteps?
- Should you settle a claim early to restrict costs?
- Showing our support to the 20th Gloucestershire Business Awards
- Sick leave and holiday rights
- Significant benefits to be had when voluntarily registering your land
- Significant changes to business immigration rules
- Significant reform to court procedure
- Silver anniversary for ‘Diamond’ lawyer
- Single Payment Scheme, Basic Payment Scheme and the transfer window
- Smart contracts: how ‘smart’ are they really?
- Social media – be careful what you post!
- Social Media and HR – dismissal by tweet?
- Software – avoiding the bugs
- Solicitor promotions announced across the firm
- Squatting is now a criminal offence
- SRA issues bogus solicitor warning
- Staff can get back holidays if they fall sick
- Staff effort rewarded by Local Business Charity Awards
- Staff fundraising efforts recognised by local community
- Stressed in the City
- Strong results for Willans in the latest edition of The Legal 500
- Strong success in South West legal rankings
- Strongest ranking to date in the South West
- Succession planning for business owners
- Succession planning for business owners; top tips
- Supporting the next generation of lawyers
- Supporting women in business
- Supporting younger talent
- Swearing at work – what the &*%@?
- Take care when varying a lease
- Take part in Will Aid during November
- Taking bookings for April’s Make a Will Month in aid of medical charity Cobalt
- Taste food & farming awards – And the winner is….
- Taxation of settlement payments
- Tenancy deposit advice for residential landlords
- Terms & conditions: Don’t let the ‘small print’ become a big issue
- Testamentary freedom under attack
- The balancing act and rent claims in administrations
- The case of the dodgy banister
- The Cheltenham Awards: Celebrating our town’s businesses and individuals
- The classic car market & the law – Q&A
- The Companies (Striking Off) (Electronic Communications) Order 2014
- The complexities of implied easements unravelled
- The cost of contamination
- The crucial role of due diligence
- The death of annual returns
- The Deregulation Act 2015 – changes for residential landlords
- The Dilnot report: care funding
- The EU settlement scheme: steps employers can take now
- The GDPR is coming – guidance to date
- The latest statutory limits
- The less said the better
- The madness of boundary disputes
- The national living wage is on the horizon
- The paperless trail – document management in the digital age
- The probate process: key steps explained
- The routes through court for intellectual property rights
- The uncertainty of ‘reasonableness’
- The way the cookie crumbles …
- Think dispute, think ADR
- Think twice before you sell part of your property
- Thinking of making a will? Consider taking part in Gloucester Cathedral’s ‘Make a will fortnight’
- Thinking of popping the question this Christmas? Or might Santa bring you a ring this year?
- Thinking of selling your business? Legal tips for an effective exit strategy
- Thomas Pink wins trademark court battle against Victoria’s secret
- Three top tips for charity trustees
- Three top tips for charity trustees this spring
- Time for a legal spring clean? 6 tips for your business in 2018
- Time off for the Olympics
- Time to get ready for new bribery law
- Tips on future-proofing your business at our succession planning seminar
- Tips won’t count towards wage
- To tweet or not to tweet?
- Today’s court ruling backs worker’s claim for 13 years of holiday pay
- Too much monkey business
- Top commercial property lawyer joins Willans
- Top residential property lawyer rejoins Willans
- Top tips for charity trustees
- Top tips for drafting good business contracts
- Top tips for improving wellbeing in the workplace
- Top tips for protecting your business legally
- Tougher regulation for charity trustees
- Trade secrets directive
- Transfer of existing agri-environment schemes
- Trespassers beware
- Tribunal confirms voluntary overtime must be included in holiday pay
- Tribunal fees update
- Tribunal system reform
- Trust compliance in 2018 – know your obligations
- Trustee oversight
- Trustees of charities – is CIO status for you?
- Trustees’ duties & charity land: 6 frequently-asked questions
- Turning a blind eye: the concept of ‘dishonest assistance’
- Turning pages – a new venture for retired lawyer
- Two new additions to our residential property team
- Unexpected liability for contaminated land
- Unfair dismissal – proposed changes
- Unfair dismissal claim – beyond belief?
- Unfair dismissal claim by deceased employee’s estate
- Updates on employee rights
- Using your own name as a business brand
- Value of inheritance tax receipts has reached a record level
- Varying a contract of employment
- VAT changes hit charities
- Volunteers are not protected against discrimination
- Waiving goodbye to a right to forfeit?
- We advise national charity in London head office re-location
- We are delighted to announce our new charity of the year
- We are proud to support the 21st Gloucestershire Business Awards
- We are recruiting! Come and work for us
- We combine expertise to share one of the best kept secrets in business strategy
- We grow in number and in rank
- We have advised on the multi-million pound sale of Gloucestershire businesses
- We have taken on a new charity challenge for LINC
- We toast our 70th year with a celebration at Chapel Arts
- We welcome new senior associate to our agricultural team
- We’ve pledged our support to help make Gloucestershire a great place to do business
- Website blocking injunctions & ISPs
- Weigh up risks before suing for damages – a cautionary tale
- Welcome to a new family law partner and litigation executive
- What businesses need to know about the proposed E-Privacy Regulation
- What does ‘furlough’ mean? A quick definition for employers
- What does Brexit mean for employment law?
- What does Brexit mean for your European workers?
- What employers need to know about the General Data Protection Regulation and employee data
- What is a ‘reasonable’ adjustment?
- What is a contractor’s right to rectify defects?
- What is the Green Deal?
- What kind of ‘endeavours’ should one agree to?
- What will happen to the ‘no-fault’ divorce bill?
- What will the electric vehicle mean to residential development and businesses?
- Wheel clamping – the new picture
- When business partnerships go wrong (and how to avoid it)
- When can a director claim joint privilege?
- When there really are no perfect answers, try mediation
- When unwelcome guests come to call …
- Where there’s a will, there’s a way…
- Whistleblowing’ changes
- Who employs the agency worker?
- Who is a whistleblower?
- Who will make decisions about your health and welfare, if you became unable to?
- Why apply for a job you don’t want?
- Why handling your own divorce is a bad idea
- Why LPAs are a valuable insurance for business owners
- Wide machinery and rights of way
- Will I get my money back?
- Will it be a legal ‘red card’ for Blackburn Rovers?
- Will signing and COVID-19 lockdown I Useful tips
- Will the UK still have to comply with the GDPR after Brexit?
- Will week raises funds for National Star
- Willans advises one of the UK’s leading marketing service providers on share sale
- Willans announced as headline sponsor of the SoGlos Gloucestershire Lifestyle Awards 2020
- Willans appointed to Clydesdale Bank’s regional legal panel
- Willans appoints new female managing partner to share the top job
- Willans are first solicitors in Cheltenham to win new Law Society quality mark
- Willans are with you for the journey
- Willans celebrates strong showing in latest edition of Legal 500
- Willans handles high-profile deal for Space Catering (UK) Ltd
- Willans have raised over £10,000 for The Nelson Trust
- Willans helps national charity acquire new out-of-town ‘superstore’ in Cheltenham’s Tewkesbury Road
- Willans helps Total Ltd. sue YouView for trade mark infringement
- Willans host ‘Meet the New Partners’ event in Cheltenham
- Willans host charity concert at Pitville Pump Room
- Willans partners with Fresh: Art Fair 2020
- Willans partners with the Fresh: Art Fair
- Willans plays vital role in biggest UK exhibition of contemporary sculpture
- Willans rankings announced in Chambers 2013
- Willans repaints history with university’s school of art & design
- Willans secures top-tier rankings in The Legal 500
- Willans supports ‘Growing Gloucestershire’ initiative
- Willans supports ‘Make A Will Fortnight’
- Willans supports Cobalt’s Make a Will Month
- Willans supports Dementia Action Week 2019
- Willans supports Dementia Awareness Week
- Willans supports prestigious business awards
- Willans supports the 20th Gloucestershire Business Awards
- Willans teams up with Cheltenham Chamber to offer legal clinic to businesses
- Willans works on high-profile deal for Autoclenz Group Limited
- Willans’ corporate team advise on management buyout of Cavendish Park Bricklayers for £6.25m
- Willans’ private client partners recognised in international High Net Worth guide
- Winter illnesses: a headache for employers
- Without prejudice – legal jargon buster
- Without prejudice privilege
- Work commences to build new Macmillan Cancer Support Centre
- Workforce succession planning – Q&A with our employment law partner
- Working with children
- Yeomans Row Management Ltd v Cobbe
- You can’t bury the evidence
- You can’t take it with you
- Your digital legacy: what happens to your assets after you die?
- YouView loses High Court appeal against Trade Mark Registry finding over brand name owned by Total
- YouView TV infringes our client’s trade mark, High Court rules
- YuleTube if you want to …
- Zero hours contracts may be at a “record high”, but have they already reached their peak?
- Zero-hours contracts Q&A
Case Studies
- Bamboo Technology Group
- CEMAR
- Cheltenham Festivals
- Commercial Group
- Continental
- Cotswold Fine Jewellery Group
- Felt So Good
- Holiday Architects
- Joedan Group
- KIBOUsushi
- Lansdowne Rodway Estates, Crown House Developments & Stock N Lock Self Storage
- Marchants
- Randall & Payne
- Regency Clinic
- Sanderson PLC
- Sparsholt College Hampshire
- Técnicas Reunidas UK Ltd
- The Chartered Governance Institute
- The Nelson Trust
