Private Clients
Update Your Will Today – This is What Can Happen If You Don’t
Family relationships can become increasingly complex over time, particularly where marital breakdown intervenes, and that is why it is so important to…
Relationship Broken Down? Do You Understand the Legal Consequences?
When a relationship between partners who jointly own their home breaks down, one of them may move out leaving the other in…
Disinherited Widow Can Pursue Reasonable Provision Claim Despite Delay
If someone on whom you depend financially dies without reasonably providing for you in their will, you should contact a solicitor straight…
High Court Exercises Inherent Power to Order Children’s Return to England
Many families have one foot in the UK and another abroad and that can give rise to parental disagreement as to where…
Disability Discrimination by Association – Guideline EAT Decision
It may sound surprising, but you need not necessarily be disabled in order to suffer disability discrimination. As one case showed, it…
New Anti Money-Laundering Regulations affecting the Art Market
Patents reward originality, and inventions that are obvious developments on pre-existing designs……
Doing the charitable thing – A brief introduction for businesses considering establishing a charitable entity
A senior employee of a software company was dismissed for gross misconduct after he authorised payment of the……
Late Payment of Tax – There Is Such a Thing as a Reasonable Excuse
Those who pay their taxes late can expect punishment – but there is such a thing as a reasonable excuse. In one…
Facing a Bank’s Formal Demand for Payment? You Are Not Powerless
When faced with a bank’s formal demand for payment, individual debtors can feel that there is little they can do but comply….
Ambiguous Wills – Court of Appeal Gives Effect to Deceased’s Intentions
Where words used in a will are ambiguous, judges will strive to interpret them in a way that gives effect to the…