A smooth handover

Posted by on Feb 4, 2010 in Blogs, buying-pubs, English Pub, legal-procedure, pub-sales, solicitor | 0 comments For once, a nice, efficient, pub completion today: the Ewe & Lamb at Rolvenden Lane has changed hands; I acted for the sellers and Janet Cousins at Mowll & Mowll in Dover acted for the buyers. She is always efficient and, while still protecting her clients’ interests, co-operative – unlike many solicitors, who seem to think it is part of their job description to be...
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Being held over a barrel

Posted by on Jan 28, 2010 in Blogs, buying-pubs, English Pub, legal-procedure, pub-sales | 0 comments It is fairly common, when buying or selling a pub, to have a simultaneous exchange (of contracts) and completion. Partly this is because the parties’ preferred completion date is too soon to allow for all the pre-contract work to be finished a couple of weeks before the completion date – as a result, the parties often book removal arrangements, etc, on trust. This trust can be...
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Identity theft

Posted by on Jan 19, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, lawyers, risk | 0 comments Boys & Maughan’s tips to combat ID theft are a useful, if on the whole common sense, reminder of how to avoid ID theft. One point that I had not recognised before is that company directors’ full names, home addresses (usually) and signatures (often) are available from Companies House. In addition, as it happens, so are their dates of birth – useful material for a...
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The price of justice

Posted by on Jan 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, lawyers, legal system | 0 comments In the Guardian today, Marcel Berlins is delighted with the Jackson Report, expecting it to drive down legal costs – of civil litigation, anyway. Maybe it will, but I think he is unfair on lawyers.OK: legal costs are high; I don’t dispute that. However, to say they are disproportionate is, often, unfair. However small the claim, the lawyer running (or defending) it is expected to be...
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Three strikes and you’re out – daft!

Posted by on Jan 17, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, Uncategorized | 0 comments How can the government think it is fair, proportionate, feasible or right to terminate a household's Internet connection because someone using it is accused of breach of copyright?Quite apart from the weakness of the evidence and the risk that the transgressor is piggy-backing on someone else's insecure wireless network, terminating an entire household's connection is unfair on any...
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