Right to Rent: Updated guidance relating to EUSS applicants entering new tenancy agreements
What is a right to rent check? A quick overview: All landlords in England, have a responsibility to conduct right to rent checks on all prospective adult tenants before the start date of a tenancy agreement. These checks are conducted to prevent those without lawful immigration status from accessing the private rented sector by ensuring
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Home Office extends coronavirus right to rent checks concessions
The Home Office has published updated guidance for landlords carrying out adjusted Coronavirus right to rent checks. This guidance extends the concession allowing landlords to conduct manual right to rent checks via video conferencing and copies of supporting documents from 31 August 2021 to 5 April 2022. This is beneficial for landlords as it is much
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Enforcement of a Possession Order: The current position on enforcement of possession orders
Enforcement of a possession order: How it normally works… Once a possession order has been served, if the defendant does not vacate the premises by the date of possession in the order, and no appeal has been lodged, the order for possession is enforceable by either of the following:
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Hillary Cooper Law – Our Specialisms & Strengths
Here at HCL we have considerable expertise in a wide variety of practice areas ranging from Commercial Law, Property Law to Dispute Resolution and Asset Protection. Our focus is to make legal simple and stress free. If you would like to know more about our practice strengths and how we can support you then read
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Welcome to the HCL Legal Hub™
Are you a small business or Solopreneur but wary of big legal budgets? Do you need access to legal resources and documents quickly? Do you need a qualified expert with whom to sound out your legal ideas?
Read MoreTips & Traps to avoid for SMEs and Solopreneurs
Presenting the next instalment in our ‘Tips & Traps to avoid for SMES & Solopreneurs’ series where each month we will be showcasing examples of businessmen and women who made easily-avoidable errors costing them their valuable time and money. Take our advice and don’t make the same mistakes they did! (Although Hillary Cooper
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Spring has finally sprung & free advice at the HCL Legal Advice Hub™
Editorial Foreword Hallelujah! the new financial year has begun and what a crazy month it has been thus far. Nevertheless, we all look forward, eager eyed, to what wonderful surprises this year shall bring. Not that we are expecting a return to normality anytime soon; lest we forget – there is no such thing as
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The Right Way – Exercising the Right to Manage over your property Q&A
Parliament has just voted for the fifth time not to pass legislation allowing the costs of fire safety and cladding issues to be borne by the freeholders/landlords of unsafe developments. This has left a very bitter taste in the mouths of leaseholders who could be potentially facing repair bills of up to £15bn. It is
Read MoreTips & Traps to avoid for SMEs & Solopreneurs
Presenting the next instalment in our new series ‘Tips & Traps to avoid for SMES & Solopreneurs’ where each month we will be showcasing examples of businessmen and women who made easily-avoidable errors costing them their valuable time and money. Take our advice and don’t make the same mistakes they did! (Although Hillary Cooper Law loves the
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Is Life looking so Golden? The taxation of payments on termination of employment – A snapshot of the status quo and future trends
Introduction Payments on the termination of employment, also known as severance payments or more popularly in the commercial world referred to as: Golden Parachutes, Golden Handshakes or Golden Goodbyes can take various forms. In non-litigious cases; taken at the lowest level they can be in the form of statutory redundancy payments as defined under the
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