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Business Law Portsmouth

How to comply with the law and details of lawyers and organisations who can help you locally.

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Complying with the law must be one of your most important considerations and you may need to consult a solicitor to ensure that any legal decisions are made with full knowledge of the Laws that may affect your business.

This section should give you a good overview some of the most important issues. However, commercial law can be complex and we would strongly advise you to contact a local lawyer before committing yourself to any legally binding contracts.

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Federation of Small Business (FSB)

Federation of Small Business (FSB)

The Important Business bits aside from Sales & Marketing and how to deal with them!

Regardless of your size or development stage, every business owner has to comply with many forms of business regulation, ranging from the obvious like taxation and employment law to the less apparent things such as data protection, health & safety and contractual law. These regulations are there to protect yourself, anyone who works with you and your customers. The Federation of Small Businesses exists to help business owners navigate the pathway to being compliant through advice, support, the documentation needed and even protection for when things do go wrong. So instead of having to deal with separate Solicitors, HR and Health & Safety professionals, we do it all for you.

Additional to this we also support and protect you on cybersecurity, crisis management, debt recovery, free business banking, payroll/pension service and all business insurance matters.

All this from only £3 per week.

We've been doing it now for 45 years and currently support over 160,000 businesses in the UK!

For more information, please visit www.fsb.org.uk or contact tim.brock@fsb.org.uk

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An interactive step-by-step guide which also includes all of the most important subjects covered with links to useful articles and relevant contacts.

The idea of starting your own business can be incredibly exciting and who can blame you for being tempted?

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Portsmouth Legal Help

Federation of Small Business (FSB)
The Important Business bits aside from Sales & Marketing and how to deal with them! Regardless of your size or development stage, every business owner has to comply with many forms of business regulation, ranging from the obvious like taxation and employment law to the less apparent things such as data protection, health & safety and contractual law. These regulations are there to protect yourself, anyone who works with you and your customers. The Federation of Small Businesses exists to help business owners navigate the pathway to being compliant through advice, support, the documentation needed and even protection for when things do go wrong. So instead of having to deal with separate Solicitors, HR and Health & Safety professionals, we do it all for you. Additional to this we also support and protect you on cybersecurity, crisis management, debt recovery, free business banking, payroll/pension service and all business insurance matters. All this from only £3 per week. We've been doing it now for 45 years and currently support over 160,000 businesses in the UK! For more information, please visit www.fsb.org.uk or contact tim.brock@fsb.org.uk
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Insight legal
With a commitment to delivering a first class level of customer service at the forefront of everything they do, Insight Legal provide high quality software to legal firms of all sizes. Used by professionals throughout the country, the software makes a genuine difference to a solicitors working life, streamlining processes and cutting down on costs. Find out more here.
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Spinnaker Intellectual Property
SPINNAKER IS A FIRM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEYS SPECIALISING IN PATENTS, TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS We are able to assist you across the full spectrum of intellectual property services - in some cases in collaboration with other parties such as solicitors, accountants and other business advisers. Our services include patents and inventions, trade marks and brands, and design registrations.
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A2Z Probate Research
We are a probate research or genealogy company, we will prepare a family history, or if you have an estate where someone has died without leaving a will you have need to locate people who could benefit from the estate, contact us, we will give you a quote, we work on a fixed fee basis, what we quote is what you pay, except for dispurstments. This it different from other companies who work on a time basis, and could well come back to you looking for the budget to be increased
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Bernard Chill & Axtell Solicitors
Since 1947, Bernard Chill & Axtell Solicitors have been helping individuals, families and businesses to change their lives for the better. The vast array of services that we offer allows us to provide our clients with a lifetime of expert assistance. From representing a Young Offender at the police station, to applying for a Lasting Power of Attorney, Bernard Chill & Axtell solicitors will be there to advise and assist you with any legal issue you might face throughout your life. At Bernard Chill & Axtell, we have over 60 highly talented legal professionals who are dedicated to improving the lives of our clients. All of our solicitors are fully trained and accredited members of the Law Society, and as such, we approach each instruction with the utmost professionalism and skill. Our impressive staff list includes members of the Childrens Panel of the Family Law Society, members of Resolution, a trained Family Mediator, Higher Court Advocates and a barrister who is in the Legal 500. We offer a huge range of services, from Family Law and Mediation to Conveyancing and Dispute Resolution. We can assist with Wills and Probate, and Immigration matters, and we now have one of the largest Criminal Defence departments in Hampshire. Despite this, our friendly and approachable legal experts are always on hand to offer you the best possible support and assistance both inside and outside of traditional office hours. As a firm, Bernard Chill & Axtell are expanding rapidly to meet the growing demands of our clients. We now have 7 offices, based in Southampton, Eastleigh, Portsmouth, Ash, Lymington and Basingstoke. We are extremely modern and forward-thinking, and yet we have maintained our traditional values, and continue to treat each new instruction with the same dedication and professionalism that we always have.
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Chawton Innovation Services
My company helps start-ups with intellectual property management issues, such as understanding the basics of IP, determining what IP rights should be obtained, how to manage the associated costs, and ultimately ensuring that IP adds value.
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QualitySolicitors Knight Polson
QualitySolicitors Knight Polson are one of the UKs leading Solicitors firms. We are the UKs first legal brand and have a strong reputation for being the best Solicitors in Fareham
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Trademarkroom
The Trademarkroom specialises in protecting your trade mark (or brand). We offer comprehensive pre trade mark application searches in the UK, EU and beyond; we will send your search results back to you within 24 hours. We offer a 10% discount on your order if you quote from the SYOB website! We have offices in Brockenhurst and Southampton.
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Local help for startups

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