Legal Fact File Categories
Fast, free and easy access to a range of legal factsheets, flowcharts, checklists, tables and interactive questionnaires on legal issues affecting your business and personal affairs.
- Agent or distributor?
- Dealing with an agent
- Dealing with a distributor
- Employing family members
- Protecting your intellectual property
- Protecting your trading names and brands
- Your email marketing and anti-spam law
- Distance selling
- Your website and the law
- Dealing with a web designer
- Negotiating an agreement to host your website
- Your marketing database and the law
- Purchasing IT
- Categories of goods and services for the purposes of trade mark registrations in the UK
- Health and safety for employees working with a computer
- Workers' health information and data protection law
- The Freedom of Information Act and your trade secrets
- Planning to export
- Environmental issues
- Registering trade marks
- Obtaining venture capital
- Types of venture capital investment
- Valuing your business
- Floating your company
- Planning your exit from your business
- The Companies Act 2006
- Making decisions: Matters usually decided by the shareholders
- Shares for employees
- Shares for family members
- Shares for outside investors
- Shareholder Agreements
- Issuing shares for cash
- Share buy backs by your company
- Becoming a PLC without a listing
- New director induction
- Indemnifying directors against legal liabilities and costs
- Removing a director from office under the Companies Act
- Stationery and premises: Disclosure of details
- Company and business names: Words and phrases you can't use without permission
- Forming a business
- Employment contracts
- Induction of new employees
- Giving references
- Flowchart: The employee information and consultation rules 2004
- The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (ICE) 2004
- Dismissing employees
- Circumstances when a dismissal is automatically unfair
- Dismissals - dealing with common situations
- Matters to include in your disciplinary procedure
- Setting up a disciplinary procedure
- Holding a disciplinary hearing
- Setting up a grievance procedure
- Dealing with employment tribunal claims
- Making redundancies
- Avoiding age discrimination
- The national minimum wage
- The working time regulations - working hours
- Paid holidays, rest periods and entitlement to time off
- Maternity and paternity
- Flexible working for parents, and parental care leave
- Introducing an incentive pay scheme
- Minority shareholders in private companies: their rights
- Resolving commercial disputes
- Dealing with boardroom and shareholder disputes
- How to use 'without prejudice' to protect your interests
- Pre-empting arguments over compensation: liquidation damages and penalty clauses in your contracts
- Being sued
- Who pays legal costs in business disputes
- Time limits for bringing court actions
- Getting paid: trading terms
- Overseas customers: getting paid
- Getting your goods back if you aren't paid
- Collecting debts
- Claiming statutory Interest on your debts