Shareholder Agreements
Why do we need a Shareholders’ Agreement? It makes sense for company shareholders to have a Shareholders’ Agreement to regulate the relationships between them. General company law provides shareholders with some rights and protection but, by having a Shareholders’ Agreement, the shareholders can include…
Business Franchising
The LH Group is all about planting seeds for future business growth and planning in easy steps to ensure your business always has clients or customers. Franchising-v- licensing When a business is looking to expand, franchising and licensing are often seen as the most attractive…
Speedy Legal
The Need For Speed If you are in business you know how important speed is, whether its getting your quotes to customers, invoicing the customer on time, organising a contract fast or just generally being first to market. You need a business law team who…
Employed or Self Employed?
Employed or Self Employed? The legal distinctions between ‘Employed’ and ‘Self-Employed’ are not straight forward; even HMRC and the Employment Tribunal can come to different conclusions. Employers need to be conscious not only that their contracts are carefully drafted but equally that the working practices…
Contracts and Agreements
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NDA and Confidentiality Agreements
NDA and Confidentiality agreements Protecting business information and ideas is absolutely essential to ensuring competitiveness in the modern IT and creative sector and NDA (non-disclosure agreement) and confidentiality agreements are key to this process. Unfortunately, many businesses, particularly small businesses, often operate on trust, as…
Freelancers classed as employees
We advise a number of businesses including those offering group activities on the importance of their freelance contracting arrangements. It is very easy, as their businesses grow and the freelancers spend more time following their roles that the thin grey line between employee and contractor…
RESTAURANT HEALTH & SAFETY AND FIRST AIDER POLICY AND DOCUMENTS
Do I need a Health and Safety Policy? If you have fewer than 5 employees you are not legally required to have a written policy for health and safety, although it will help if there is a dispute regarding safe working practices. You are required…
Working for the competition
CATERPILLARS CRAWLING OVER EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSES A 2012 court case heard in the Court of Appeal Caterpillar Logistics Services (UK) Ltd v Huesca de Crean dealt with an appeal relating to whether an organisation could prevent a former employee working for a competitor. A…
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