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Welcome to the first edition of sas news, our new quarterly
business e-newsletter. At SAS Daniels LLP it is important to us that we
maintain excellent communication with both our clients and business
associates and aim to achieve this by providing you with a newsletter that
contains commercially driven advice on a range of legal and industry
developments, as well as news from across the firm, but in a format that's
easy to digest.
The contents of this
newsletter are intended for guidance only but should you require specific
advice, we have included an easy email link in each article to make
contacting us that much easier.
We want to make sas
news work for you, so would welcome your feedback to nigel.haddon@sasdaniels.co.uk.
In the meantime we hope you will find this first edition useful and
informative.
Nigel Haddon - Managing
Partner
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Senior Lawyers join
SAS Daniels LLP as Firm's Growth Continues
Jeremy Orrell and Louise Tobin, two of the North West’s most
influential senior commercial lawyers, have joined the SAS Daniels LLP
team
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Questionnaire Quandary
With the economy on the way up and the recession on the way
out the signs are that business and public sector alike will be
recruiting.
But Jonathan Whittaker, Employment Partner at SAS Daniels LLP,
is warning that hasty recruitment processes can be hugely costly –
especially if the wrong questions are asked of a candidate in a medical
questionnaire
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Commercial Debt
Recovery and Enforcement
In the current economic climate, it is essential to develop
good debt management practices. With customer insolvencies on the
increase, timely collection of debts and avoidance of bad debt is
imperative to maximise cash flow. For some businesses this could mean the
difference between continued trading and insolvency.
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out more
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Empty Business
Premises - What are your options?
Since the abolishment of empty property business rates
relief last year, most landlords benefit from only three months grace for
non-industrial premises and six months for industrial premises before
having to pay the full amount of business rates. What are
your options?
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North West
Entrepreneurs Missing Care Sector Investment Opportunities
An exclusive club of North West entrepreneurs looking for
recession-proof investment are ploughing money into the acquisition and
development of care homes in the region.
But Gareth Brewerton, based in our Stockport office, says that many
more entrepreneurs are missing opportunities in the field because it’s
not an area they know about. He estimates the number of deals completed
in the care sector in 2009/2010 will be double that of 2007/2008.
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The Benefits of a Shareholder
Agreement
The internal management and administration of a company is governed by
the Articles of Association, a document that is filed at Companies House
and is open to public inspection. Shareholder agreements
supplement these and have a number of advantages.
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An Alternative to
Redundancy/Lessons of the Recession
As a knee jerk reaction to the onset of recession many
employers automatically turn to redundancy as a quick fix solution when
the immediate imperative is to reduce overheads as quickly and deeply as
possible. However, this time around many prudent employers have
looked at alternatives.
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Companies Act - Final
Changes from October 1st
The final provisions of the Companies Act 2006 came into force on 1
October 2009. What's changing, and are you prepared?
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out more
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