Private Client

• Are Your Children Your Tenants? – Sign a Lease

  • Posted11 May 2016

  Parents often let their children live in properties they own on an informal basis. However, one Court of Appeal case stands as a stern warning that the absence of a...

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• Seventeen-Year Battle Over Assets Proves Ruinous

  • Posted6 May 2016

  Divorces are very seldom totally amicable, but letting squabbles over the terms under which a marriage is dissolved run on and on can be ruinous, as a recent case shows....

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• Tenant Lives to Fight Again as Court Upholds Without Prejudice Plea

  • Posted4 May 2016

  When a tenant admitted in discussions with her landlord’s lawyers that she had been in arrears with the lease payments on her restaurant, the admissions were used to justify a...

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• Insufficient Disclosure Negates Challenge to Enquiry

  • Posted29 April 2016

  It is generally considered that if HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) raise no enquiries in relation to a tax return in the year following its submission, that is the end...

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• Have You Been Given Free Advice That Was Wrong?

  • Posted26 April 2016

  Just because you haven’t paid for professional advice doesn’t mean that the person who gave it to you is relieved from liability if it was negligently given. A recent...

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• Children’s Views Given Greater Weight as Parental Control Wanes Over Time

  • Posted18 April 2016

  When a marriage breaks up, the court’s primary consideration is the welfare of any children, and their views are of great importance when a decision is being made as to...

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