Author Archive

Employers – have you thought about staffing levels for 2021?

Joanna Stepien, a solicitor in the real estate team looks at points to consider for the landowner on entering into an electricity substation lease and related easements.

**Updated 27 April** Mark Banham, head of the property litigation team, provides an update on new Government measures aiming to protect commercial tenants on the high street from landlords seeking to recover rent arrears by serving a statutory demand, filing a winding up petition or by using the Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) procedure.

A team at FSP has advised Finch Commercial Insurance Brokers Limited on its acquisition of Portsmouth-based independent brokers, Hughes & King as it maintains continuity during turbulent times.

Field Seymour Parkes has been acting for the last 12 months for The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre UK Ltd (VMIC), which is very much in the news at the moment, in their acquisition of a site at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.

Mark Banham, Associate in the property litigation team provides an update on the measures put in place by the Government and the Judiciary to protect commercial tenants from forfeiture and possession proceedings up to 30 June 2020.

We evaluate a High Court ruling that offers clarification on furlough during administration.

The Supreme Court has recently held that an employer was not liable for data breaches made by a rogue employee, overturning the decision of the Court of Appeal.

We review the recent changes Nominet has made to improve security in the .UK domain platform.

Despite the disruption caused by the impact of Covid -19, Spring is proving to be a busy period for rural news: