John Stephenson, senior partner and head of residential property team at city firm Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, is warning house sellers to take a hard stance at the outset to stop the increasing trend to ‘gazunder' - when the buyer offers a last-minute price drop prior to exchange of contracts.

John Stephenson, senior partner and head of residential property team at city firm Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, is warning house sellers to take a hard stance at the outset to stop the increasing trend to ‘gazunder' - when the buyer offers a last-minute price drop prior to exchange of contracts.

Senior commercial lawyer Nick Maltby at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP is warning of the potential pitfalls of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in the wake of the Deputy Prime Minister's announcement that funding allocated to successful bids may increase.

The Government has named four more of its proposed 21 Enteprise Zones in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and Sheffield this week but with a warning from Nick Maltby, partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP not to make the mistakes of the 1980's.

Angus Walker, planning partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP believes that although the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) has said that it intends to grant development consent to Covanta Energy for its Energy from Waste plant to be built at Rookery South in Bedfordshire, its referral to Parliament under Special Parliamentary Procedure (SPP) is wholly unnecessary and the regime should be altered.

Elaine Dobson, property partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP welcomes the Governments plans to make squatting a criminal offence.

The case of Kotegaonkar v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Bury Metropolitan Borough Council should have been common sense believes Jennifer Chappell.

Sushila Pindoria, senior associate at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP believes that quarterly rental payments by tenants, especially those in the retail sector, are fast becoming a thing of the past as more tenants demand to pay monthly.

Acas has published guidance for employers on how to support parents of premature or sick babies. This includes advice on the employee's responsibilities, how to support parents ...

In NHS 24 v Pillar, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether it was unfair for an employer's investigation into misconduct to take account of previous similar ..

In Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that store employees could compare themselves to employees working in distribution depots...

In Fulton and another v Bear Scotland Ltd (No 2), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has recently confirmed that a gap of more than three months between non-payment or underpayment...

In Blackburn v Aldi Stores Ltd, the EAT has recently considered whether there was a breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence when an employer failed to provide an impartial grievance appeal.

In Egon Zehnder Ltd v Mary Tillman, the High Court has ruled that although the reasonableness of restrictive covenants must be judged when they were entered into, the parties' expectations of future promotions...

In International Petroleum Ltd and others v Osipov and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an Employment Tribunal's finding that two non-executive directors...

In Government Legal Service (GLS) v Brookes, the EAT has considered whether refusing to make adjustments to a multiple choice situational judgment test for a job applicant with Asperger's syndrome...

In Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has provided further clarification of the law on holiday pay, confirming that voluntary overtime...

Finance Bills at the moment are like London buses; you wait ages for one and then two come along at once.

Although the Chancellor, Philip Hammond's 2017 Budget speech was most notable in the context of UK property ownership for its reform to the SDLT rules for first time buyers at the lower end...

The new Electronic Communications Code comes into force on Thursday 28 December 2017 with some significant changes for property owners.