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• Boundary Argument Costs Teacher £50,000

  • Posted3 March 2016

  Boundary disputes can take a long time to resolve and can be ruinously expensive, as a recent case illustrates. It involved a teacher who put up a fence along...

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• You May Want to be Careful Where Your Case is Heard

  • Posted29 February 2016

  The English courts are enduringly popular with litigants, who often go to great lengths to have their cases heard in this country. The reason for this is that English law...

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• HMRC Get Ready to Throw the Book at Tax Evaders

  • Posted24 February 2016

  In recent years, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have created a series of very generous ‘disclosure windows’ to allow people who have undisclosed assets in tax havens to reveal their...

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• Local Authority Not Liable for Foster Care Abuse

  • Posted18 February 2016

  In general, employers can be held ‘vicariously liable’ for the actions of their employees, in the course of their employment, where these cause damage to other people. A recent...

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• Incorrect Documentation Fails to Cancel Charge

  • Posted15 February 2016

  Just because a document is not properly executed does not mean that all rights are necessarily lost, as a recent case in the Supreme Court illustrates. It involved a...

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• Patient’s Wishes Determine Care

  • Posted11 February 2016

  The much publicised case in which the Court of Protection ruled that clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) could lawfully be withdrawn from a patient with multiple sclerosis who was...

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