Ervaid Law / Legal Updates
Legal Updates & Analysis.
Practical analysis on the issues we are seeing on our files. Written by the lawyers doing the work, short, specific, and aimed at the people who would actually be on the receiving end of a letter.
Cannabis, AML & the British business overseas.
Considering the issues for British individuals and companies trading regulated products in jurisdictions where the legal status differs from England and Wales.
When a letter before action is a strategic asset.
The pre-action letter is not a formality. Drafted properly, it sets the tone, the timetable, and often the settlement.
HMRC dawn raids: the first sixty minutes.
What to do, what not to say, and why the first hour shapes the rest of the investigation.
Defamation in the age of group chats.
Private WhatsApp groups, Slack channels, and the modern publication threshold. What counts as ‘publication’ under section 1 of the 2013 Act.
Account freezing orders: what to do in week one.
The standard early steps when a client’s business banking is frozen by the NCA, and how to start framing a successful variation application.
Settlement clauses founders quietly regret.
Three boilerplate provisions in standard settlement agreements that look harmless and routinely come back to bite founders six months later.
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