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If you supply temporary workers, it’s crucial to have legal contracts in place. If your contracts fail, so may your chance of recovering the fees you charge. There are three...

Many people combine successful businesses and careers with active social lives, taking skiing and sailing holidays, cycling to keep fit and generally enjoying their hard earned leisure time. The problem...

When granting long leases of flats, landlords should think carefully about what rights they should give over common areas; and, when responding to a claim by the lessees to acquire the freehold,...

An executor is the person appointed in a Will to administer the estate of a person who has died.  Acting as executor is a position of responsibility and can be...

Debenhams Ottaway has won the prestigious Law Society Excellence Award 2015 for their private client work. The awards, which took place at London’s Hilton Park Lane last night, celebrate leading...

Last week Debenhams Ottaway held its second Charity Week. This time it was in aid of their chosen charities for the year Mind in Mid Herts and St Albans Museums and Galleries Trust....

The recruitment sector is particularly vulnerable to the financial risk posed by bad debt and late paying clients. Debenhams Ottaway, a leading Hertfordshire law firm and REC Business Partner has...

What an exciting day yesterday was for family lawyers. At long last the Supreme Court, the highest court in the country, decided that not being entirely honest about the financial...

Bernadette Hillman, head of planning at Debenhams Ottaway, will again be talking at the RTPI’s annual East of England Planning Law Update held at Downing College, Cambridge on 6 November 2015. Bernadette...

Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) allow you to appoint someone you know and trust (known as an Attorney) to make decisions on your behalf should you lose mental capacity and...