Pictons places great importance on keeping clients up to date with changes in the law which may affect them and their businesses.
Click on the links below to read Pictons’ specialist articles.
Corporate & Commercial Articles
- SMEs 'failing to recognise corporate manslaughter rules'
Author: David Hughes
Date: Feburary 2010 - Libel laws reformed
Author: David Hughes
Date: Feburary 2010 - Sky wins landmark fraud battle
Author: David Hughes
Date: Feburary 2010 - Pictons Guide to: Buying & Selling a Company
Author: David Hughes
Date: Feburary 2010 - Carbolic smoke ball: fake or cure?
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Date: November 2009 - Lego 'builds' trademark case
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Date: November 2009 - OFT to investgate use of personal data
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Date: November 2009 - Pocket Guide to Data Protection Law
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Date: September 2009 - Waste, Electrical & Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE)
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Date: September 2009 - Running a Competition
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Date: September 2009 - Confidentiality & Non-competition Clauses for Commercial Contracts
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Turning your business into a franchise
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Exiting a partnership
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - The Pictons Director guide to: LLP's
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - The Pictons Director guide to: Partnership Agreements
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Setting up a partnership
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Choosing the right franchise for you
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Buying a franchise business
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Reviewing your franchise agreement
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Copyright & Trademarks
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Patents & Designs
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2009 - Non-executive directors and the Companies Act 2006
Author: David Hughes
Date: Feburary 2009 - What's reasonable and what's best ? Looking for the meanings of
Author: David Hughes
Date: Feburary 2009 - Top 10 data protection pitfalls for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) - and how to avoid them !
Author: David Hughes
Date: November 2008 - Customer Disputes and Client Disagreements: FAQs for when things go wrong
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2008 - Thinking About a Shareholders Agreement? Start here.
Author: David Hughes
Date: June 2008
Employment Articles
- Increase in paid Public Holidays and National Minimum Wage
Author: Aye Limbin
Date: October 2007 - Age Discrimination (Recruitment)
Author: Jacqueline Webb
Date: March 2007 - Age Discrimination (Redundancy)
Author: Jacqueline Webb
Date: March 2007 - Age Discrimination (Retirement)
Author: Jacqueline Webb
Date: March 2007
Clinical Negligence Articles
- Complacency among GPs in diagnosing cancer
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: January 2010 - Increase in claims following gastric band surgery
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: January 2010 - Misdiagnosed meningitis victim awarded £3.2m
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: December 2009 - Unlawful killing verdict - hospital prosucuted over nurse death
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: December 2009 - Death following angioplasty - Pictons LLP settled a fatal accident claim for £100,000
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: December 2009 - Civil partner wins right to compensation following partner's cancer death
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: December 2009 - Hospital slammed over ‘scandalous’ death of baby
Author: Carole Watts
Date: December 2009 - Doctor flown into hospital operated on wrong disc in very first operation
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: October 2009 - Breast cancer errors
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: September 2009 - Misdiagnosis of breast cancer
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: July 2009 - Negligent foot surgery undertaken by foreign surgeon
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: July 2009 - L - v - Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: July 2009 - Mother from Blackpool secures 3.5 million for her twin boys
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: July 2009 - E - v - a private gynaecologist
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: July 2009 - C v Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: June 2009
Family Articles
- Step Children Adoption
Author: Fabian Wilson
Date: September 2008 - Pre-Nuptial Agreements, Bankruptcy and Clean Break Orders
Author: Fabian Wilson
Date: January 2008 - Debunking the Common Law Spouse Myth
Author: Fabian Wilson
Date: March 2007 - Matrimonial Complexities (Miller & McFarlane Cases)
Author: Fabian Wilson
Date: March 2007
Personal Injury Articles
- Inquest records ‘accidental death’ verdict on death of Luton
Author: Helen Clifford
Date: Feburary 2010 - Slip and Trip in a retail shop
Author: Mark Wardrop
Date: December 2009 - Highways Agency under fire over black ice
Author: Mark Wardrop
Date: December 2009 - £100,000 for factory worker after sodium hydroxide blinding accident
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Date: December 2009 - £450,000 for amputee engineer after ladder fall at work
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Date: December 2009 - E.Coli lawsuit to 'batter' Wrexham chippy
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Date: November 2009 - BBC assault victim considering criminal injury compensation
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Date: September 2009 - Information on E-Coli
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Date: September 2009 - Scaffold death brings comment from HSE
Author: Helen Clifford
Date: September 2009 - Cotswolds company to appear in first corporate manslaughter trial
Author: Helen Clifford
Date: September 2009 - Mother from Blackpool secures 3.5 million for her twin boys
Author: Rosaline Wong
Date: July 2009 - What others say about us
Author: Emma Anthony
Date: June 2009 - Failure to detect and protect daughters of Sheffield man jailed for life for chronic abuse
Author: Tracey Emmott
Date: November 2008 - Pay-out for water bug victims
Author: BBC
Date: October 2008 - National Accreditation awarded to Pictons
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Date: October 2008
Wills, Trusts & Probate Articles
- Intestacy forcing bereaved out of homes
Author: John King
Date: January 2010 - ‘Watch your will writer’ urges Law Society
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Date: January 2010 - Rapid increase in people contesting inheritance
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Date: January 2010