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The ownership of any form of Intellectual Property (IP) rights, such as patents, copyrights, database rights and design rights, often creates opportunities to exploit these valuable assets in the marketplace. This may be achieved through various avenues, such as the sale of IP rights, the licensing of marketing rights and the creation of franchises. For […]
27/07/26
KANGS has assisted a senior National Health Service (NHS) Consultant in successfully defending fraud allegations. The investigators alleged that he had, fraudulently undertaken and received payment for private clinical work during periods when he was contracted to, and being paid by the NHS. Following the detailed preparation of our client’s defence by the team at […]
21/07/26
In this article we discuss how HMRC can ‘pierce the corporate veil’ in certain circumstances using Personal Liability Notices which allow Directors and other senior officers of a company to be pursued in their personal capacity. Directors and other senior officers of private limited companies have, for well over a century, enjoyed a considerable level […]
15/07/26
A winding up petition is a formal court application made by a creditor seeking to place an insolvent company into compulsory liquidation on the basis that it is unable to pay its debts. The number of companies, private businesses and individual traders facing insolvency remains high, reflecting pressures such as rising National Insurance Contributions, increases […]
09/07/26
As part of its drive to reduce the ‘tax gap,’ being the difference between the amount of tax HMRC collects and the amount it estimates is actually owed, HMRC operates a powerful data networking and analytical system known as HMRC Connect. The system enables HMRC to identify businesses or individuals that may not have paid […]
06/07/26
Where following an RSPCA investigation the owner of an animal is prosecuted and convicted under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (‘the Act’) for an animal cruelty offence, such as causing ‘unnecessary suffering to an animal’, the Court may, as one of its options, make an Order depriving that person of ownership of the animal and […]
02/07/26
KANGS assisted our client and his company in achieving a highly successful resolution to proceedings issued against them for alleged breaches of Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations, following a complaint by a member of the public that she became unwell after consuming food at the company's business premises. Sukhdip Randhawa of KANGS explains how this […]
30/06/26
