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Starting up
Setting up a business involves complying with a range of legal requirements. Find out which ones apply to you and your new enterprise.
Business ownership and management
While poor governance can bring serious legal consequences, the law can also protect business owners and managers and help to prevent conflict.
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  • Administrative requirements
  • The board of directors
  • Shares and shareholders
  • Shareholder and boardroom disputes
  • Family businesses
Finance and business strategy
Whether you want to raise finance, join forces with someone else, buy or sell a business, it pays to be aware of the legal implications.
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  • Raising finance
  • Floating your business
  • Buying another business
  • Mergers, joint ventures and cartels
  • Dealing with insolvency
Employment law
From pay, hours and time off to discipline, grievance and hiring and firing employees, find out about your legal responsibilities as an employer.
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  • Recruitment and employment contracts
  • 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
Whether you are selling to businesses or consumers, you must comply with laws designed to protect customers and ensure acceptable trading standards.
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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
Commercial disputes can prove time-consuming, stressful and expensive, but having robust legal agreements can help to prevent them from occurring.
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  • Business contracts
  • Dispute resolution
  • Going to court
  • Debt recovery
  • IP disputes
Commercial premises law
Whether your business owns or rents premises, your legal liabilities can be substantial. Commercial property law is complex, but you can avoid common pitfalls.
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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
With information and sound advice, living up to your legal responsibilities to safeguard your employees, customers and visitors need not be difficult or costly.
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  • Managing health and safety
  • Carrying out a health and safety risk assessment
  • Environmental regulations
Data protection and IT
As information technology continues to evolve, legislation must also change. It affects everything from data protection and online selling to internet policies for employees.
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  • Data protection
  • IT law
Intellectual property
Businesses large and small have intellectual property. It can be a key business asset that requires sufficient protection if you are to maximise its full value.
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  • Trade marks
  • Copyright
  • Design right and registration
  • Patents
Exit strategies
Knowing how and when you plan to sell or relinquish control of your business can help you to make better decisions and achieve the best possible outcome.
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  • Succession planning
  • Selling your business
  • Exiting a family business
Personal law
From bereavement, wills, inheritance, separation and divorce to selling a house, personal injury and traffic offences, learn more about your personal legal rights.
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  • Divorce and family law
  • Employment
  • Wills
  • 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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