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How the legal profession is responding to technological advances - interview with HSF partners Jeremy Walden and Shona Grey
In this podcast our HSF Real Estate partners Jeremy Walden and Shona Grey discuss how the legal profession is responding to technological advances, as …
HMRC wins landmark SDLT avoidance case
In a 4-1 ruling, the Supreme Court has found in favour of HMRC in the long-running saga of Project Blue Limited v. HMRC (2018) UKSC 30, to the effect …
Real Estate Podcast EP1: Why mark documents "subject to contract" in real estate transactions and joint ventures?
Kate Wilson and Lucy Morton, lawyers in the Real Estate and Planning teams at HSF, provide a summary of the importance of marking documents with the …
Ousting unauthorised occupiers! Government consults on dealing with trespassers
The word "trespasser" may well send a shiver down the spine of many commercial landowners. Trespass can take a number of different forms, from …
Are you GDPR ready?
It is unlikely to have gone unnoticed from the volume of emails asking individuals to "opt in" to future company mailing lists that tomorrow (Friday 25 …
CYBER SECURITY – is your property adequately protected?
Cyber security affects all businesses and industries and is a Board level agenda item. As cyber-attacks are becoming more common (and hitting large …
How is IPMS measuring up?
Despite prevailing market practice indicating a preference by developers/landlords to continue to use the 6th edition (2007) of the RICS Code of …
Court Interprets Obligation in a Standard Form Construction Contract to use all due diligence to obtain planning approvals
A commonly encountered provision in the standard form JCT Building Contract (2005 edition) was interpreted by the Court of Appeal to include an implied …
TOUCHING THE VOID – Mazars Revisited
Not many outside the business rates bubble will have been following the twists and turns of the Mazars case and its aftermath. Stripping away the …
Observations from MIPIM: The Public Dented Sector
Now that the annual decant to Cannes has drawn to a close, I am left wondering how to judge the mood of this year's MIPIM – the world’s biggest property …
Observations from MIPIM: logistics and prop tech
In this post, Paul Chases, a partner in the HSF London Real Estate team comments on his experience of the Shedmasters event at the MIPIM real estate …
Observations from MIPIM: Flexible workspace
New technology is changing the way people live and work, and flexible workspace is the subject of several events at this year's MIPIM real estate …
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