A concern for business owners is how to run their businesses efficiently, with minimal disruptions or disagreements.

The horrors of shareholder disputes cost eye-watering sums of money, destroy relationships, and destroy businesses.

It would be great to rely on a handshake and know that nothing will ever go wrong but we all know that your business, you and your partners and the context in which you exist do not remain constant.

In a recent Court of Appeal case the Court had to decide whether a party was bound by a contract when he had not signed the contract document.