The Blog - Archive

January 2010



28/01/10 "Side Letters" - Beware!

Side letters are normally used in commercial agreements to alter the terms of a standard document. They are useful for large shopping centres or portfolios of commercial property so that the landlord can see at a glance whether there are any deviations from the key terms usually negotiated on their commercial properties without looking through the whole lease. They are also used to give personal benefits to a particular tenant that do not extend to a future owner.

If you are negotiating a property or business deal you need to be aware that putting key terms of the deal in side letters must be carried out properly. In recent cases reports have held that not having the new terms in the original contract could make the whole deal (and not just the changes in the defective side
letter) void.

Daniel Stanton and Roger Turner in our commercial team based at our Poole office can advise clients how to overcome these problems.

by Sue Benoke

 

18/01/10 New Arrivals At D'angibau

There's something in the air (or the tea) at Poole office - two babies in one month! On 6th January Natalie Clarke (residential conveyancing solicitor) gave birth to a son Oliver and just 9 days later Suzie Stanton (wife of commercial solicitor Daniel Stanton) also gave birth to a son - Matthew.

Both babies and mothers are doing well. Congratulations to both sets of parents!

by Roger Turner

 

11/01/10 Make a Lasting Power of Attorney - You'll regret it if you don't!

"Court of Protection dismissed as an alien and costly institution".

So ran the Times headline on 4th January in an article about Heather Bateman's experience with the Court of Protection after an accident, which left her husband in a coma. Mrs Bateman's very real problems could probably have been avoided if her husband had given her a Lasting Power of Attorney to run the bank account, which paid most of the household bills. In the absence of a Lasting Power of Attorney, she had to apply to the Court to be appointed as her husband's Deputy, a long and costly process which ultimately "brought almost as much anger, grief and frustration" into Mrs Bateman's life as the accident itself. This is a scenario which should be avoided at all costs.

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by Robert Fielding

 


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