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For International Women’s Day partner Penelope Garden shares some of her favourite podcasts by influential women.

Developers! Beware of Restrictive Covenants!

Julia Mactear of our property disputes team reviews the locally and nationally significant case of The Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v (1) Millgate Developments Limited and (2) Housing Solutions Limited. This case is an important Court of Appeal decision which examines whether a developer can apply to retrospectively modify restrictive covenants post development, on public interest grounds under s.84 Law of Property Act 1925.

Why FSP is proactively seeking to develop and incentivise women

Ahead of International Women’s Day partner Penelope Garden reflects on the importance of embracing diversity.

FSP advises Jaynic Properties on residential development sale

Dean Bickford, Partner in the Real Estate Team has advised Jaynic Properties in relation to its management of the sale of the 15.7 acre former Newlands School in Seaford, East Sussex.

Wedding planning? Add pre-nuptial agreements to the list

Sue Baker explains the nature of pre-nuptial agreements in the UK.

Stupid cupid

Tips for mitigating the potential fallout from office romances.

Immigration information

The Government sets out plans in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.

A matter of time

Should employers record actual working time?

Whistle-blower protection

Can purely ‘personal’ disclosures be covered?

No-deal Brexit: How to prepare in the consumer goods sector?

Cathrine Ripley, head of our Commercial and Technology/IP department reviews the guidance issued by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on earlier this month about how the consumer goods sector may prepare in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Is your company absence minded? A practical guide to dealing with long term sickness

Changes to tenant fees from June

The Tenant Fees Act will come into force on 1 June 2019, with the effect of banning or restricting fees charged by landlord and letting agents to tenants.