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Geoffrey Leaver are proud to be the sponsor of the MK Marathon Corporate Relay Challenge being held on Sunday 29 April 2012. We hope that businesses with an MK postcode will take part in this prestigious new event, which will increase your company profile, boost morale, test teamwork, improve fitness and on top of all that raise funds for charity.

Geoffrey Leaver Solicitors now offer its own Wealth Management Service to clients, operating in collaboration with Scottsdale Consulting Limited. Geoffrey Leaver Wealth Management can assist you or your company on all aspects of financial planning so that whatever your requirements, personal or corporate, we can advise you on the best approach for making key investment or funding decisions.

Richard Millard provides a reminder to directors that they are under certain duties to the company and to creditors and that if they are in breach of those duties they might find themselves personally liable where they have allowed the company to continue to trade when they knew or ought to have known that the company is insolvent.

From the 1 October 2011 the long awaited changes to the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 ("the Construction Act") will come into force. The Act changes part of the payment mechanism by giving payment notices more importance and introduces default payment notices where there is a failure to serve them. The Act will now also apply to construction contracts entered into verbally and it makes changes to some of the Adjudication provisions.

Anne Maguire examines the growth in the dentistry and cosmetic surgery industries and the fact that professionals still owe a duty of care to patients and if something goes wrong patients might be entitled to compensation.

Even if passing bundles of used notes in a plain brown envelope plays no part in your business model, the new Bribery Act is going to create new hoops that companies, however squeaky clean their dealings, are going to have to jump through if they do not wish to finish up in court. The Bribery Act has received royal assent and was expected to be enforced this April. It has been delayed but Troy Warner explains when it does happen companies will have to take a long hard look at how they go abou

Geoffrey Leaver were delighted to host a meeting between leading members of the business community from Zhejiang province and the Milton Keynes and North Bucks Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Rita Spada.

We are delighted that this year’s Legal 500 has once again recognised the quality of the legal services that we provide, recommending the firm in a total of 13 areas of specialism ranging from EU and competition law to construction and social housing expertise.

We are proud to announce the launch of our new website which provides information about the services and experience that we offer and who to contact to discuss the legal issues that you may need advice on.