There is a long-established principle that liability for immigration breaches can transfer on the acquisition of a business, along with employees. The widening of the sponsorship net to bring most employment-related immigration into the Points Based System makes the Sponsor Management System the default mechanism for making timely notifications. Both buyers and sellers of businesses need to know their obligations and the risks of getting it wrong.

A leading Midlands law firm has demonstrated its commitment to reducing the gender pay gap in a new report released on International Women’s Day.

The new government has delivered on setting up a new UK Border Security Command (BSC) to enhance security and tackle organised criminality around trafficking and scrapped the expensive and controversial Rwanda plan. Against this background, what should businesses, still worried about skill shortages and employment costs, expect?

Celebrating talent across all areas of its business, a leading Midlands law firm has announced 17 promotions as part of its on-going growth plans.

Ben McCosker considers the constituent requirement that a lease must be for a ‘certain term’, based on recent case-law and the consequences of not ensuring as such.

PACT (Professional Arbitration on Court Terms) was introduced by a joint working party involving RICS, the Law Society and the Independent Surveyors and Valuers Association in 1997.

A former apprentice barista has ‘bean’ busy teaching his coffee secrets to a leading Midlands law firm ahead of their charity coffee morning.

Two cases illustrate the difficulty of interpreting the law when it comes to landlords’ responsibility for injury incurred as a result of a perceived defect in their property.

The Law Commission has recommended that in certain circumstances, unmarried couples should have the same inheritance rights as spouses when a partner dies without making a will.