31.   Real firms have to make decisions within a climate of uncertainty, and market outcomes will differ according to their attitudes to risk.

32.   Also, because penalties in the UK, as opposed to the EC, have never been severe, firms have had contempt for the legislation.

33.   Firms then have the right of appeal to the European Court of First Instance, and ultimately to the European Court of Justice.

34.   Firms also had to face the challenge of creating and managing new systems of risk control and of exploiting new developments in information technology.

35.   Your firm may already have a brochure which gives details about how the firm works, its personnel and hopefully its charging rates.

36.   Again, most large firms now have well-established arrangements to which a conveyancer should defer in these increasingly complicated times.

37.   Larger firms may have direct computer links enabling an instant registered office search.

38.   Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty agreed that the firm had a good record and said it bought vast quantities for distribution to its various stores.

39.   The firm has four of them alongside a host of other fascinating phone products on their large stand at the front of the hall.

40.   A HIGH-TECH electronics firm has more than doubled interim pre-tax profits as it expands its world-wide operation, it was revealed yesterday.