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Encouraging Entrepreneurs in Kent

Professional Women in Business

Come and join the Professional Women in Business networking group run by Gullands with Basepoint Business Centres and the British Heart Foundation. The group meets for breakfast every other month in and around Gravesend and North Kent and information and updates can be found on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/professionalwomeninbusiness/  Julie Hobson, at Gullands comments: “These breakfast […]

A detailed look at M&A activity

Buying or selling a business can be complex and here at Gullands, our Business Hub team will guide you through the whole process. Shares of a company are bought and sold between existing shareholders or by new shareholders under a share sale agreement.The key features of a share sale agreement should include: There are of […]

Oyster Bill receives Royal Assent

Dudley Cramp, Consultant Solicitor at Gullands has been responsible for drafting the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Bill, which received Royal Assent earlier this year. The Bill provides for the alteration of the objects, powers and constitution of the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company, which is a statutory company incorporated by the Faversham Oyster Fishery Act 1930. […]

Duty of Care when Performing Gratuitous Services

In our Summer 2016 edition, we drew attention to the case of Burgess and Anor v. Lejonvarn. If you remember, Mr and Mrs Burgess wanted to have some substantial garden landscape work done to a high level design. Having been quoted a price of £150,000 their friend Mrs Lejonvarn, an architect and project manager by […]

New Court Guidance on Adjudication Enforcement

The Court has set guidance that parties must follow when deciding whether to challenge the enforcement of Adjudicators’ decisions. Essentially, unless the parties co-operate in the enforcement proceedings to agree what the Court will consider, or the Defendant has a natural justice or jurisdictional challenge, there will be no defence to enforcement. Instead, a party […]

Redundancy: What’s the alternative?

Many employers see redundancies as the only way out of economic difficulties that they face.  What many employers fail to consider is that these should be a matter of last resort and there are many other possible options open to them to avoid this process.  Below are just a few of the successful measures used […]

Viscount Bearsted returns home at last

Blair Gulland, Chairman of Gullands Solicitors has helped to ensure the return of a very important painting of Viscount Bearsted to Mote Park, Maidstone in his role of Trustee of the Maidstone Trust. Marcus Samuel, Viscount Bearsted was a very important name in British Commerce during the latter part of the 19th Century and owned […]

Hard working John celebrates his 80th birthday

Gullands consultant John Rice celebrated his 80th birthday recently, and the firm held a celebratory dinner for John’s colleagues and friends. For John, the day took place in what was also just another typical working week. John’s long working career prior to joining Gullands, took him to the position of senior partner in the long-established solicitors firm of Days in Earl […]

Services for individuals at Gravesend

We pride ourselves here at Gullands Solicitors on providing easy to access legal services and advice for individuals, whatever your circumstances. Our team at Gravesend are on hand to help and being situated conveniently in Stone Street and close to the Station, you can make an appointment to pop in, or we can arrange a […]