Legal helpline
Helping you get the advice you need to succeed
Most queries can be managed over the phone and even when things are more complicated, you can get advice on whether an issue is worth pursuing. That is why we offer you two levels of support:
- Commercial legal helpline
- Additional support
Commercial legal helpline
Markel Law provides our commercial legal helpline. Find out what you can seek advice on below. If you want to talk to a commercial consultant please email [email protected].
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- Policies
- Meetings and procedures
- Company articles
- Directors’ duties
- Shares and shareholder rights
- Company meetings
- Shareholder agreements and disputes
- Director liabilities
- Dissolution and striking off
Note, this service does not advise on charity law or technical accounting queries.
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- Business-to-business and self-employed contracts
- Consumer contracts
- Commercial aspects of service contracts (including restrictive covenants)
- Standard terms of business
- Distance selling
- Quality of goods or services
- Guarantees or warranties
- Cancellations, termination or refunds
- Retention of title
- Commercial disputes
- Late payment and debt collection
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- Data protection principles
- ICO notification requirements
- Data compliance
- Subject-access requests
- Third-party requests
- Medical records
- Equality or discrimination issues
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- Text, photographs, designs, music, videos, books, websites etc.
- Protecting trademarks
- Licensing of IP rights
- Passing off
- Licence disputes or other infringements of any IP rights
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- Rights, responsibilities and obligations
- Partnership disputes and dissolution
- Consultant, contractor and agency agreements
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- Freehold or leasehold
- Access rights
- Boundary disputes
- Commercial leases
- Lease extensions
- Rent review
- Repair obligations
- Landlord and tenant disputes
Note, this service does not advise on business rates.
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- Including negligent products or services
- Public liability
- Duty of care
- Exclusions of liability
- Defamation, slander, libel or negligent misstatement
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- Business liquidation
- Administration
- Receivership
- Personal bankruptcy
- Statutory demands
- Personal guarantees or liability of directors
Additional support
When you need more support and advice, we can offer preferential rates for a leading law firm.
On a case by case basis, such as when an issue might have sector wide implications, we will also fund legal advice on behalf of the sector.
For more advice and support email [email protected].
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