Limited Company? Partnership? Sole Trader? Social Enterprise? Making up your mind about the legal status of your business will depend upon how much you wish to protect yourself from risk, how many people are involved in your venture, and how you wish to be seen by the big wide business world.
It is fairly common for clients to view the required use of a solicitor by a Bank as just for the purpose of witnessing their signature.
Lawrence Rodkin, Partner at Simons Rodkin Litigation Solicitors outlines the key considerations when engaging self-employed staff or contractors.
The two major advantages of Limited company are reduction in the amount of tax that is expected of your company and greater protection of your personal assets if the company runs into debt.
From our two days at the Business Start Up Show it became clear from our survey a key point for new businesses was the costs involved in hiring a solicitor to check over or create employment contracts, supplier contracts and terms of business.
What you need to know about partnership agreements if you are thinking about goig into business as a partnership.
The effect of existing employment non competition covenants when setting up your own business in competition with a former employer
The law does require a certain amount of minimum written information to be provided to employees at the commencement of their employment, and an employee is entitled to written information in respect of specified employment terms within two months of their employment commencing.
Like entering into a marriage, every new business is hopefully an exciting prospect, entered into with a view to a fulfilling and financially rewarding future.
It really is good practice to have in place a set of Terms and Conditions which you provide to your customer explaining the terms which apply when they purchase goods or services from you.
It is a great temptation when starting off a business to engage self employed consultants/contractors without any formal documentation or simply after an exchange of emails.
A The Limited Liability Partnership Act 2000 ("the Act") created a legal entity known as a Limited Liability Partnership ("LLP").
The Companies Act of 2006 is important to companies who don't always do the right thing when it comes to their business.
In recent years, dozens of traditional legal services have been reconfigured into impersonal software.
