Landlords, most of you will know you must have annual gas safety inspections undertaken on your properties and certificates provided by the inspector. But do you know the consequences should you fail to meet your responsibilities ? We recently read a report where a Landlord who repeatedly failed to carry out annual gas inspections on one of his properties was guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Gas Safety (Installation [...]

Litigation in the UK is getting cheaper. Fundamental changes to the procedure for claims in the Patents County Court (“PCC”), which (despite its name) hears claims relating to all types of intellectual property, have been implemented with effect from 1 October 2010. This will create a simplified process for resolving lower value and less complex IP disputes than are traditionally heard in the High Court. An important change is the introduction into the PCC of [...]