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Brethertons LLP

16 CHURCH STREET, RUGBY, CV21 3PW, ENGLAND

Tel:: Work 01788 579579
Fax:: Fax 01788 570949

Web:: www.brethertons.co.uk
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Rugby CV21, Rugby CV21, Rugby CV21, Banbury

What we say about the firm's legal practice in West Midlands

Corporate and commercial

Within Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in the West Midlands Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in the West Midlands

Human resources

Within Employment Employment

Insurance

Within Personal injury: claimant Personal injury: claimant

Private client

Within Agriculture and estates, tier 4

Kate Austin, FILEX leads Brethertons LLP’s team, advising on sales, purchases, remortgages, deeds of easement, and land registry matters.

Within Family: Elsewhere in the West Midlands, Brethertons LLP is a second tier firm,

‘An ethos of efficiency permeates’ Brethertons LLP. The team ‘demonstrates a sound and thorough knowledge of the law, but advice is always tempered by an injection of practicality’. Linda Jones has ‘unsurpassed, encyclopaedic knowledge of family law’.

Within Personal tax, trusts and probate Personal tax, trusts and probate

Real estate

Within Commercial property: Elsewhere in the West Midlands, tier 4

Brethertons LLP specialises in areas such as secured lending, care homes and leisure, alongside niche expertise in wind farms and IT and telecommunications masts. Mary Anderson heads the department.

TMT (technology, media and telecoms)

Within Intellectual property Intellectual property

Within IT and telecoms IT and telecoms

What we say worldwide

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South East

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West Midlands

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No substitute for experience

If there is one part of the Localism Act 2011 about which local government lawyers have considerable concerns, it is the new standards regime.

- 11KBW
CONSULTATION AND LEGITIMATE EXPECTATIONS

Clive Sheldon QC

- 11KBW
Changes to list of approved English language tests are made by the UKBA

It has been announced by the UKBA that the list of approved English language tests for those individuals applying under tiers 1,2 and 4 of the points based system has been amended. One of the main changes is the lowering of the TOEFL points score against the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). TOEFL now includes scores for spouse and partner applications.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Important information about London 2012 released by the UKBA

Important information about the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been published online by the UKBA. With the UKBA expecting to carry out security checks on more than 380,000 workers and participants, it has set out detailed information for those individuals who will be travelling to the UK for the event. The information is divided into the following categories:

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Premium sponsorship for tier 2 and tier 2 and 4 sponsors

As reported in our November 2011 Update the UKBA is planning to introduce a 'premium sponsor' category and we expect that this will be in April 2012.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Arts Council England introduces new procedure for tier 1 (exceptional talent) applicants

From 3 January 2012, individuals applying under tier 1 (exceptional talent) of the points based system will need to follow new guidelines if they wish to have their application endorsed by Arts Council England (ACE).

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
The UKBA contacts tier 2 sponsors regarding COS allowances

The UKBA has been contacting authorised officers at tier 2 sponsors in relation to the new certificate of sponsorship allowance which will become effective from 6 April 2012. Any COS issued from that date will come from the new allocation.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
The UKBA updates tier 4 sponsors on educational oversight

The UKBA has reminded all current tier 4 sponsors that if they are not already subject to inspection or review by the relevant educational oversight bodies, they must apply before the deadline stated in the current sponsor guidance.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
London 2012 visa applications open for spectators

From 1 January 2012 the UKBA will begin to process visas for non-UK spectators wishing to travel to the UK to watch the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
10% Tax Rate for Intellectual Property Confirmed

On 6 December 2011, the UK Government published further details of a lower Corporation Tax rate for IP earnings which will come into force in April 2013.

- Boult Wade Tennant