Solicitors from Withy King’s corporate commercial and private client teams based in Bath highlight a few recent developments for business owners to be aware of in their professional and personal lives. Company directors must be ‘natural persons’ The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 introduces some of the biggest changes in company law...
Four Bath businesses are showing their support for local carers by sponsoring the B&NES Carers’ Centre annual awards night. Law firm Stone King, the headline sponsor of Celebrating Carers, has made a generous donation to enable the centre to recognise the unsung heroes in the local community. The other three businesses – Minuteman Press...
Specialist learning and development group RTS is staging training courses to help car dealerships get to grips with the biggest change in consumer rules to affect the motor trade for decades. The new Consumer Rights Act will give buyers of new and second-hand cars more power to demand full refunds if the vehicle is...
Bath-based accident management and specialist legal services group Redde has taken over a rival for £43.2m as it continues its major restructuring. Redde – known until last year as Helphire – said the acquisition of Huddersfield-headquartered FMG would broaden its accident and fleet management capabilities and allow it to enter additional industry sectors. It...
By Emily Eccles, solicitor, commercial & employment, at Mogers Drewett. Industrial action resulting in travel disruption, such as the recent Tube and railways strikes, as well as adverse weather conditions can all impact on your ability to get to your place of work on time, or at all. Ultimately employers are able to use...
Rebecca Stevens, a family solicitor at Bath law firm Withy King, has been shortlisted for a major legal award for a third time this year in recognition of her pro bono work. Her latest nomination is in the Legal Personality of the Year category of the Law Society Excellence Awards, having been selected by...
More than half the businesses in the South West fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers for their future success, according to an alarming new report. The annual CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey – which gauged the views of 101 firms across the region – found that 68% say they...
Commercial law firm Thrings, which has its largest office in Swindon, is advising the trade association for bookshops in its legal battle against what it sees as market abuse by online retail giant Amazon. The EU’s Competition Directorate (DGC) has launched a competition law investigation into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements. But the Bookseller's Association...
Bath desperately needs more affordable housing to ensure its future economic wellbeing, the city’s recently-elected Bath MP Ben Howlett told local property professionals. Key to this was overhauling the “archaic planning system” to free-up brownfield sites for housing development, Mr Howlett said. Addressing the second in a series of property and construction networking events...
Commercial law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bath, has advised on the sale of a solar farm that will be one of the UK’s largest when it starts generating power next year. The 165-acre Wroughton Airfield Solar Park, on a former Second World War RAF air base near Swindon, has been sold...
