Private Client

• Unforeseeable Risk Means No Liability

  • Posted10 March 2014

  When a go-kart driver suffered catastrophic injuries after using a go-kart lent to her by a friend, the court ruled that she was not entitled to compensation. The owner...

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• Allowing Use of Land May Create Irrevocable Rights

  • Posted5 March 2014

  When land has been used by someone who has no legal entitlement to use it for 20 years without interruption, an ‘easement’ can arise under the Prescription Act 1832. In...

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• Teenager’s Wishes Decisive in Contact Dispute

  • Posted4 March 2014

  In a ruling that underlines that the wishes and feelings of children can be decisive in even the most intractable family cases, a father has won a seven-year battle to...

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• Prove It or Lose It

  • Posted27 February 2014

  A recent tax case shows how important it is to be able to prove one’s claims when dealing with the tax authorities. It involved a couple who moved to...

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• Law Commission Backs ‘Qualifying Nuptial Agreements’

  • Posted27 February 2014

  Following hard upon a case in which the court refused to uphold a pre-nuptial agreement signed by a city lawyer and his bride-to-be on the day before their wedding, the...

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• Defaulting Charities Face Investigation

  • Posted21 February 2014

  Charity trustees who are lax over accounting have received a warning from the Charity Commission that if they fail to file annual reports, accounts and returns (‘the annual documents’) for...

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