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The Yorkshire Shadow MPC is a joint venture between Lupton Fawcett Lee & Priestley and the Yorkshire Post. As is the case with the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, it meets regularly to review the economic situation and to give a regional view on monetary policy and economic stability. The Yorkshire Shadow MPC is Read more...
Lupton Fawcett Lee & Priestley, the Leeds and Sheffield based commercial law firm, has signed a lease for new office premises which will see the firm relocate from Solly Street to its new offices in The Synergy Building on Bank Street, Sheffield, in the heart of the old Cathedral quarter, with the move set for Read more...
In the current economic climate many businesses have been unable to offer employees meaningful (if any) pay rises and are very concerned about keeping and incentivising their staff and attracting new employees. The recent changes announced in the budget are making employee share options and employee share ownership increasingly attractive as a means of retaining, Read more...
Many people have expressed surprise at the harsh sentences which Courts can impose for swapping penalty points. However, many of you may also be surprised by other areas of road traffic law where offences are regularly committed perhaps, not so much out of ignorance, but as a failure to comply or keep up to date with the Read more...
The little publicised demise of the disadvantaged area relief will take effect from the 6th April 2013. This has been very much “under the radar” for many people as it is a relatively little used relief but for those who are looking to purchase a property with a value between £125,000 and £150,000 the addition Read more...
The Yorkshire Shadow MPC is a joint venture between Lupton Fawcett Lee & Priestley and the Yorkshire Post. As is the case with the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, it meets regularly to review the economic situation and to give a regional view on monetary policy and economic stability. The Yorkshire Shadow MPC is Read more...
Savvy investor Peter Jones buys the Jessops brand but not the stores (the bricks and mortar). Does this tell us anything? Is the High Street, as we know it, dead? Will it go back to the more old-fashioned quirky shops - specialists with a human touch etc? Another thing this deal tells us is that the value is in the brand not Read more...
Exploits in the best selling video game Dead Space 3 are allowing users to obtain in-game items for free. Lupton Fawcett Lee & Priestley's resident IP expert, Sara Ludlam, puts forward her answers to the legal questions raised: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21367852
Imminent demise of the Stamp Duty Land Tax disadvantaged area relief
Shadow Monetary Policy Committee
Jessops brand is bought by Peter Jones of Dragon's Den fame
Dead Space cheat undermines in-game micro-transactions
Lupton Fawcett Lee & Priestley name its two chosen charities for 2013
VAT and TOGCs - an overdue change of view
