Private Client

• Divorce – What Happens When Assets are Simply Insufficient to Meet Needs?

  • Posted2 January 2024

  For every headline-grabbing ‘big money’ divorce case there are hundreds of others where a former couple’s assets are simply insufficient to meet their reasonable needs. As a High Court ruling...

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• Has Your Home Been Devalued by Public Infrastructure Works?

  • Posted29 December 2023

  To state that location is the only important factor when it comes to valuing a home is a cliché and something of a generalisation. However, as an Upper Tribunal (UT)...

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• Going Into Business with a Loved One? Don’t Dispense with Legal Formality

  • Posted27 December 2023

  Couples who run businesses together are often tempted to dispense with paperwork and rely solely on trust. As a High Court ruling showed, however, any relationship may come to an...

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• How Good a Guide is an AIM Listing to a Share’s Open Market Value?

  • Posted18 December 2023

  Most investors would agree that the price at which shares are listed on an accredited investment exchange is as reliable a guide as any to their open market value. A...

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• Defiant Mother Sentenced for Refusing Father Contact with Their Child

  • Posted13 December 2023

  Fathers who are denied access to their children are frequently heard to complain that judges do not do enough to support them. In coming down hard on a defiant mother...

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• Property – Not Every One-Sided Bargain is a Product of Undue Influence

  • Posted6 December 2023

  Where a transaction appears to be very one-sided or manifestly more advantageous to one side or the other, judicial eyebrows are likely to be raised. However, as a High Court...

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