Legal Benefits Scheme

Legal benefits scheme in partnership with Abbey Legal, free to new retail members with no more than 250 employees*. The scheme helps protect you from expensive legal costs including:

  • Representation at employment tribunals
  • Defence of Health & Safety prosecutions
  • Representation of in-depth tax investigations
  • Representation of VAT disputes
  • Pursuit of defence of data protection disputes
  • Personal tax cover for directors and proprietors

*The scheme is only available to new retail members who join from 1st January 2010 and BSSA legacy members. BHF Group legacy members may opt to join for a relatively small annual fee.

Latest news

  • 22 Feb 2012

    Deadline for Young Retailers extended

    The deadline for entrant to the UK Young Retailer of the Year has been extended to 9th March.

  • 14 Feb 2012

    Full house for empty shop report

    Vacancy rates in British high streets remained above 14% throughout 2011 and threaten to rise in 2012 argued the Local Data Company at a packed...

  • 14 Feb 2012

    Get mentoring

    The government has laucnhed free online training to help get thousands of experienced business people mentoring small businesses.

  • 13 Feb 2012

    Independents ended 2011 on the up (no, really)

    Independent retailers produced a strong end to a troubled 2011, according to the results from the bira sales monitor