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      • Recognising the unsung heroes in our community during Carers Week 2025
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      • Higgs LLP in conversation with Simon Hyde, CEO of FAUN Zoeller (UK)
      • Higgs LLP in conversation with Mike Smith, COO, moveero
      • Higgs LLP in conversation with Nicholas Georgevic, Chairman of Scrivens
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      • Understanding the right of first refusal (ROFR)
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      • Charitable purposes: a few things to think about
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      • Can a disappointed beneficiary challenge a will?
      • Charities campaigning and using social media
      • Lessons from the Charity Commission: public trust in charities 2023
      • Artificial intelligence in the workplace
      • Contesting a will after probate
      • Can you contest your parent’s will?
      • Is an increase in 'DIY wills' a factor in contested wills?
      • How to remove or substitute an executor from a will
      • Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete: recovering remediation costs
      • ICO guidance to cover monitoring home working
      • Guidance for employers on Subject Access Requests
      • Businesses urged to increase wellbeing efforts
      • Business owners warned over succession planning
      • Act fast to avoid litigation rule changes
      • Mental health: ACAS guidance for employers
      • How often should you review your terms and conditions?
      • Are you leaving cryptocurrencies in your will?
      • A change in law on data protection
      • Does death end everything?
      • Aretha Franklin feud provides will warning
      • Spotlight on Employment Tribunals
      • Parents and carers: new leave entitlements
      • Are office holders able to weather the crypto winter?
      • Surrendering your commercial property lease: what about VAT?
      • Bankruptcy, the family home and mental health
      • A cautionary tale for directors – re-using prohibited company names
      • Climate risk and property: things to consider
      • Is there an unclaimed estate with your name on it?
      • How to ensure compliance with the MEES regulations 2023
      • Member’s voluntary liquidation: Considerations around tax and timing
      • Social media – be careful what you post!
      • Property developers and decarbonisation
      • Green leases – what they mean to landlords and tenants
      • The service charge crisis ... pay now, argue later?
      • National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
      • If your caravan floats it doesn't make it a boat
      • Divorce rate nears 10%
      • Covert recordings in private children proceedings
      • Charities urged to take a look at governing document
      • Drafting lease provisions that deal with demise
      • Changes to the UK flexible working regime
      • How to use a caveat to prevent a grant of probate
      • Understanding coercive control: a form of domestic abuse
      • Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (‘ToLATA’)
      • Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 comes into force
      • Protecting a tenant’s deposit – an interesting legal case
      • Putting your energy into addressing rising utility costs
      • How to get on board – advice for charity trustees
      • Commercial property tenants under environmental pressure
      • Smoke and carbon monoxide law changes vital for landlords
      • Late to the party wall party
      • Business succession planning – documents and structures
      • Road accident victims decreasing – but still work to be done
      • What happens when a tenant fails to reach a landlord’s green targets?
      • Significant ruling on telecoms lease renewals
      • Forward thinking with business succession planning
      • Understanding a silent killer - World Sepsis Day
      • Attempting to strike out a misfeasance claim
      • Landlords considering vacant possession should act now
      • Renters’ Reform Bill: Could rent increases be limited to once a year?
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      • Renters’ Reform Bill: applying the decent homes standard
      • Impact of The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act
      • Renters’ Reform Bill: Are no-fault evictions finally coming to an end?
      • Charities Act 2022; new flexibility amending governing documents
      • Charities Act 2022; remedy defective appointment of trustees
      • Charities Act 2022; legal proceedings and charity names
      • No will no way? Maybe not
      • Charities Act 2022; changes effecting charity land
      • The importance of registering a property lease
      • Clawing back the cost of unsafe cladding
      • Changes to building regulations: achieving net zero carbon homes
      • Changes to charity remote meeting rules
      • Environmental responsibility in retail dilapidations
      • Ruling on the lease renewal of a telecommunications site
      • Multi-buybacks are dead. Really?
      • Changes are coming for charity land disposals
      • Court refuses to determine turnover rent in lease renewal application
      • Can lease assignment applications be submitted by email?
      • Ruling helps clarify when neighbouring land can be accessed
      • P&O Ferries and its 800 dismissed employees
      • Litigation surrounding cladding claims
      • Airbnb lettings – is it permitted?
      • Grenfell: limitation rules influence cladding claims
      • Court delivers service charge boost for tenants
      • Residential long-leaseholders to purchase the freehold interest
      • Back to the office – what does this mean for occupiers?
      • Copyright infringement ruling of planning drawings
      • Sweeping changes proposed for flexible working rights
      • Employment law: is long Covid a disability?
      • Bowel care post spinal cord injury
      • Caring for your skin post spinal cord injury
      • Spinal injury centres play a key role in rehabilitation
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