A taxpayer who had completed her tax return but had not taken the final step of submitting it has successfully appealed against late filing penalties totalling £1,600 after the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) ruled that she had a reasonable excuse for...
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The Family Division of the High Court has refused a mother's application for an order that her three children should be returned from England to Lithuania . The mother and father were both Lithuanian nationals who had met and begun a relationship in the...
The Law Commission has published a report, Modernising Wills Law, containing its recommendations to reform the law governing wills. The recommendations are aimed at supporting testamentary freedom, protecting testators, and increasing clarity and certainty...
A restaurant company has partly succeeded in its appeal against VAT and Corporation Tax (CT) assessments and penalties raised by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), in a case which illustrates the importance of thorough record keeping. The company operated a...
The High Court has discharged a worldwide freezing order and an access and imaging order applied for without notice against a holding company and one of its directors, finding that the application had been made without full and frank disclosure. The...
The Upper Tribunal (UT) has ruled that a restrictive covenant which required the owners of land to obtain approval from the vendor before a house could be built on it was personal to the original vendor and did not benefit his successors in title. The land...
The High Court has ruled on a case in which a deceased man's son and daughter were unable to agree on the funeral arrangements that should be made for him. The man had been born in India but had lived in England for over 70 years. He passed away in...
A software company that provides data processing services to organisations, including the NHS and other healthcare providers, has been fined more than £3 million by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following a ransomware attack. The attack...
In a divorce case involving a couple with assets of more than £260 million, the Family Court has ruled that the husband should buy out the wife's shares in three private companies . The couple had started their life together with few assets. They had...
Making a will not only ensures your assets will pass to those you wish to benefit but also simplifies the administration of your estate. However, recent research from the Money and Pensions Service shows that more than half of people in the UK aged 50-64,...
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