Digital assets, and how they are dealt with upon death, is becoming an important  issue for many people. We are regularly asked how iTunes accounts, Kindle books, Facebook, online bank accounts, Paypal accounts etc are dealt with upon death. Many of these accounts are password protected and our families and executors need to be aware […]

When you want to sell alcohol from a property to the general public, you need to have a premises licence from the local authority to be able to do so. If you don’t have a premises licence, you can be prosecuted and shut down by the local authority and / or the police. Your premises […]

England’s early World Cup exit comes at a difficult time for English rugby union. An increasing number of players are being lured away to France’s Top 14 league, where the salary cap is significantly higher than that of the Premiership rugby clubs’. To combat this, Premiership Rugby has put in place a programme for steadily […]

Jose Mourinho is once again the talk of the back pages, but this time it’s for all the wrong reasons. The self-proclaimed ‘special one’ may have landed the Blues in a crisis after a series of highly publicised events that he has been at the centre of. With many pundits speculating that time is ticking […]

Since 1988 the company Warner/Chappell Music has collected copyright royalties in relation to the song Happy Birthday.  A recent judgment in the US has put an end to that. If you are a copyright owner you’re entitled to charge for the use of your copyrighted work. It can be lucrative – it’s estimated that Warner […]

£90billion pounds is spent by consumers in the UK every month. This figure is not surprising with more choice and variety of products being available online and now being able to shop wherever you are on a smart phone or tablet. Shopping has never been so easy. Consumer law on the other hand has become […]

The enthusiastic team at Blacks Solicitors are always ‘up’ for a challenge (Cycling from Leeds to Paris, cycling from Newcastle to London non-stop and entering a team in this weekend’s Yorkshire Marathon), so when we were invited to enter the Brownlee Tri Corporate Challenge we couldn’t say no. The adrenaline was pumping when I arrived […]

What is ‘safe harbour’? In a nutshell, the Data Protection Act says that you can’t send data overseas unless that data is adequately protected. The Safe Harbour system is the main way of satisfying this requirement and involves U.S companies that handle data relating to EU citizens signing up and self-certifying that they protect that […]

“Fiji effectively go out of the World Cup in the first five days, to me that is ridiculously unfair” The words of David Campese come in the wake of Fiji having lost to two of the tournament’s favourites England and Australia in the space of five days. Campese contends that every four years the Pacific […]

Earlier this year we reported on the key changes that the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (SBEE) will make to the existing legislation and how this may affect your business. Companies House has now published some key dates for your diary in which the transparency and filing provisions (Part 7 and 8 of […]

Back in 2011, the country’s newspapers were awash with reports of privacy ‘super-injunctions’. The furore reached its peak with the case of Ryan Giggs who successfully obtained and maintained an injunction preventing the publication of a story about his affair with Imogen Thomas when his identity was easily available on social media and had been […]

In SHOCKING news the famous Muppets duo announced on social media via a joint statement that they have taken the decision to separate after decades of on-screen romance. Muppets fans will recall that the pair have spent many years contemplating marriage and in The Muppets Take Manhattan they walked down the aisle as part of […]