Private Client

• Passage of Time Bars Application for Financial Support

  • Posted13 February 2015

  It is not uncommon for a couple’s financial circumstances to change a great deal after they divorce, and in such circumstances it will often happen that the poorer ex-spouse will...

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• Revenge Eviction Ruled Unlawful

  • Posted10 February 2015

  When a solicitor was considered to be making a nuisance of herself by helping her clients make claims against the local council, which was also her landlord, the council took...

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• Pedestrian Wins £30,000 for Agonising Pavement Fall

  • Posted4 February 2015

  A pedestrian who suffered fractures to her right ankle and knee when she tripped on the edge of a path has been awarded £30,000 in damages from her local authority. ...

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• Court Accepts Taxpayers’ Just and Reasonable Apportionment of Proceeds of Sale

  • Posted29 January 2015

  When a mother and son from a village near Barnsley sold their property (a house plus adjoining commercial buildings and land), the apportionment of the sale proceeds was crucial in...

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• Separated But Not Divorced? Your Estate May Pass to Your Ex

  • Posted26 January 2015

  Readers who live apart from their spouses or civil partners, but who have not formally dissolved their relationships, are warned that following changes to inheritance law brought into effect in...

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• Gas Safety Note for Landlords

  • Posted23 January 2015

  Residential landlords will be aware of their legal responsibility under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 to have annual safety inspections carried out on the gas appliances in...

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