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Starting up
Comply with the key rules and regulations that apply to your start up business.
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Business ownership and management
Business administration including the responsibilities of directors, shareholders and the company secretary.
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  • Administrative requirements
  • The board of directors
  • Shares and shareholders
  • Shareholder and boardroom disputes
  • Family businesses
Finance and business strategy
The legal implications of mergers, takeovers , financing and buying another business.
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  • Floating your business
  • Buying another business
  • Mergers, joint ventures and cartels
  • Dealing with insolvency
Employment law
Employees and workers are entitled to a wide range of rights and protections. Understand the rules.
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  • Pay and pensions
  • Working time: hours, leave, flexible working
  • Employment policies
  • Sickness and sick pay
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption
  • Discrimination
  • Managing homeworkers, remote workers, lone workers
  • Information and consultation
  • Discipline and grievance
  • Dismissals and redundancies
  • Employment tribunals
Marketing and selling
The law on marketing and selling, consumer protection, imports and exports and selling through third parties.
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  • Marketing and advertising
  • Consumer protection
  • Distance and online selling
  • Using agents and distributors
  • Importing and exporting
  • Offering credit to consumers
Contracts, disputes
Create business contracts, resolve disputes, recover debts and understand court proceedings.
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  • Dispute resolution
  • Going to court
  • Debt recovery
  • IP disputes
Commercial premises law
Leases, licences, business premises ownership and the law on planning permisssion and development.
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  • Your premises options
  • Getting out of a lease
  • Rent reviews
  • Managing your premises
  • Planning permission and building controls
Health and safety
Minimise the risk of accidents, injuries and incidents by managing health, safety and environmental concerns.
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  • Managing health and safety
  • Carrying out a health and safety risk assessment
  • Environmental regulations
Data protection and IT
Business data protection roles and responsibilities including GDPR, website data and cookies and use of CCTV.
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  • Data protection
  • IT law
Intellectual property
How to protect your intellectual property and maximise its value. Copyright, trade marks, patents and design right.
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  • Trade marks
  • Copyright
  • Design right and registration
  • Patents
Exit strategies
Options for selling, closing or passing on your business and how to achieve a successful exit.
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  • Succession planning
  • Selling your business
  • Exiting a family business
Personal law
Personal legal issues from divorce and family law, wills and inheritance to personal injury and traffic offences.
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  • Employment
  • Wills
  • Divorce and family law
  • Inheritance tax and family trusts
  • Lasting power of attorney
  • Family bereavement
  • Claiming an inheritance
  • Probate, executors and estate administration
  • Personal injury
  • Residential property law
  • Traffic offences
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