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A Companies House record is a statement to the world — and it can be altered by anyone with a filing code and sufficient nerve. This guide explains how fraudulent appointments and bogus filings occur, what a director should do in the first days after discovering one, and how identity verification now in force changes the landscape.
Automated screening tools promise efficiency, but they can inherit the very biases employers thought they had left behind. This guide examines how the Equality Act 2010 reaches into the recruitment pipeline, who bears responsibility when software discriminates, and the practical safeguards every employer should adopt.
Non-compete and non-solicitation clauses do not end at the exit interview, yet many employers overestimate their reach and many employees underestimate theirs. This guide examines what UK courts will actually enforce, why badly drafted covenants fail, and how both sides can navigate a departure without a courtroom.
Discovering that customer or employee data has been compromised is one of the most stressful moments a small business owner can face — and UK law gives you just 72 hours to respond formally. This guide sets out what the ICO expects, when you must report, and how to communicate with affected clients without turning an incident into an exodus.
Striking off a company can cost a few pounds in fees or hundreds of thousands in personal liability, depending on how it is done. This guide examines the two principal routes to dissolution, the tax traps lurking in each, and the mistakes that follow former directors long after the company has disappeared from the register.
A rival's van wearing your logo, a competitor listing a product under your product name — what can you actually do about it? This guide explains the law of passing off, the limits of unregistered rights, and how to build a case before you ever need a courtroom.
Leaving a company you founded from nothing requires more than a handshake and a farewell email. From share buybacks to restrictive covenants, the terms of your departure are negotiated long before the door closes behind you.
Plenty of British trade is still done on trust, a phone call and a firm handshake. This opinion piece argues that the habit is costing small businesses dearly — and sets out a practical, relationship-preserving way to put agreements in writing before disputes do it for you.
The corporate veil is thinner than most directors assume. From personal guarantees to wrongful trading and HMRC enforcement, this guide examines where limited liability ends and personal exposure begins — and what you can do about it.
Employment tribunals are littered with cases that began before the successful candidate's first day. From loose remarks in interviews to conditional offers sent in haste, we look at how pre-employment conduct creates legal exposure for UK employers — and how to close the gaps.
Remote working and digital tools have made informal arrangements easier than ever to make — and harder than ever to prove. We examine why the verbal understanding has become a genuine commercial risk and offer a practical minimum-paperwork checklist for sole traders and micro-businesses.
The line between self-employment and employment has never been blurrier, and HMRC and tribunals are scrutinising both sides of it. This guide sets out the clauses small businesses should insist on before engaging a contractor, and how to audit arrangements already in place.
Most partnership and shareholder agreements are written for the good times — and fall apart the moment things turn sour. We identify five clauses UK business owners most commonly leave out, and what their absence costs.