Emma Hunt successfully defended an emergency interim injunction issued against a client arising out of an ongoing shareholder dispute.
To renew or not to renew – Gary Rocks discusses renewing commercial leases in this month’s Business Eye. View Article
Bribery can be expensive business – Kathryn Walls examines the new Bribery Bill due to come into force later this year in this month’s edition of Business Eye. View Article
Sprucefield Public Inquiry adjourns to October on the first day without hearing any evidence as opponents win the right to mount a new legal challenge. Adam Curry acts for Bow Street Mall, Lisburn in this Inquiry.
Kiera Lee has joined the email service team at Legal Island. Legal Island’s email service provides updates on employment law to 100s of businesses across Northern Ireland. Kiera will be beginning her monthly instalments on the ‘A-Z’ of employment law this month.
Andrew Kirkpatrick acted on behalf of TM Lewin shirtmakers in their new letting in Victoria Square
Gary Rocks advised Pacon Inns Ltd on its acquisition of a Lease of The Beaten Docket, a well known City Centre Pub.
Tenants in Difficulties – is there anything either landlord or tenant can do in this turbulent economy? Andrew Kirpatrick discusses the issue in this month’s Business Eye.View Article
Solicitors from across the practice attended a gala charity dinner sponsored by Cavanagh Kelly in the Armagh City Hotel on 15th May to raise funds for building a school in Uganda. The evening was a great success and raised over £50,000.
Richard Fulton and Kathryn Walls acted for AssetCo plc, the provider of integrated support services to the UK Fire and Rescue Service, in relation to the £40m contract to provide a fully outsourced firefighting service by His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. The contract, which is for an initial 3 years, is the first of its kind in the UAE that involves a total turnkey solution for the provision of personnel, training, operational equipment and facilities management.
A Change Can Do You Good! –Kiera Lee discusses the options available to an employer wishing to change the terms of an employee’s contract in this month’s Business Eye. View Article
Legal Eagles Make their Mark – congratulations to the Belfast Solicitors GAA Society on reaching the Ulster junior inter-firms final at their first attempt – and in particular to Gary Rocks of our property team, founder and chairman of the Society. View Article
Emma Hunt and Richard Craig acted for Micwall Developments Limited. They were successful in obtaining an emergency mandatory injunction in the Chancery Court against a subcontractor who had unlawfully removed street lights throughout their development sites.
Five members of the Mills Selig team carried out Saintly Duties by participating in the Business in the Community ‘Be a Saint’ Day on 19th March. Kathryn Walls and Nicola Simpkin mucked in and walked out with the dogs at Assissi Aninal Sanctaury in Conlig whilst Richard Craig, Maeve Fisher and Niamh McCullagh built paths and pruned rose bushes at the National Trust property at Minnowburn, Shaw’s Bridge.
Making the Companies Act Work for You – Chris Guy discusses changes made to company law under the recent legislation in this month’s Business Eye. View Article
Instructed in the successful defence of an application for recission of the lease agreement of cinema premises at the Odyssey Complex, Belfast. Adam Curry and Maeve Fisher continue to be instructed in the defence of a related Appeal.
Legal advisers to First Derivatives plc in the acquisition of the business and assets of Cognotec Limited, an Irish company specialising in e-commerce solutions to automated foreign exchange and money market dealing systems.
