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Business First Issue 20 - 02/11/2011

Tales of the unexpected

Good management is all about protecting your business – against any reduction in income and profitability, against the consequences of unknowingly breaking the law, against competitor activity and, of course, against unforeseen disasters of countless varieties.

Protecting your business is also the overriding theme of this issue of Business First – protecting it through planning, through understanding the law and through applying those simple rules of good management. The summer’s riots in a number of English cities have been an alarm call for firms the length and breadth of the land, as the ever-present danger of business interruption featured on news bulletins and front pages. That is why in this issue we highlight the value of planning in preparing for the unexpected.

This has also been a bumper year for new, amended or expanded legislation. We look at how the laws covering migrant and agency workers might affect your business; we also examine how recent case law has made the nuptial agreement an increasingly important tool in protecting business assets, and we consider how social media is affecting the recruitment process.

Making the wrong decisions about the working environment and technology can prove costly, and our special focus on the considerations that lead to effective home-working is designed to help you choose the right course for your business and your people.

We always try to make Business First an easy-to-digest distillation of legal knowledge combined with business insight that will help make your venture evermore successful. I hope we have succeeded with this issue.

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