Alex Evans talks through the Chancellor's announcement of the new Job Support Scheme. All that is currently known about its operation is explained below. Which businesses are entitled, which employees are entitled and what they are entitled to. 

Not all work is equal in law. Obligations, rights and duties change depending on the type of work the one partakes in. In this article, Alex talks through some of the basic identifying features of three types of "employment" relationship. Those being the contract of employment, the worker contract and the independent contractor. 

It is easy to assume that you automatically own the intellectual property rights to your company’s website. After all, you’ve purchased the domain name, hired a developer to build website, written the content and your staff manage the day to day running of the site.

However, intellectual property rights for websites can be complex. Websites are composed of various creative elements – including the logo, coding, domain name, photos and text – all of which have individual IP rights attached to them. Without securing all the IP rights affecting your website, you could find that you own less of your company website than you imagined, leaving you in a vulnerable position.

Although powers of attorney are often associated with losing mental capacity in later life, they in fact serve a range of purposes and are particularly useful in commercial and business contexts.

If you need to allow someone to continue running the business in your absence, or to provide for a scenario in which you were no longer actively involved in managing the business, there are various reasons why you may wish to consider appointing a power of attorney. They are also commonly used in corporate transactions where for practicality one person is appointed attorney on behalf of a wider group of individuals.

When two or more people are buying a property together, a declaration of trust may be required to clarify who the rightful owners are and what interest in the property they each hold. This is because, under English law, there is sometimes a distinction between the legal and beneficial owners of land or property. This article explains how to register a declaration of trust at the Land Registry.