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The annual return, a fixture of the company reporting cycle for decades, is being replaced by a simpler 'confirmation statement'. The main impact of the change is that the confirmation statement will not require information that has not changed to be...

Not many people would disagree with the position that children should only be taken from their natural parents as a last resort and this is the view of the court system also. In one case which strikingly made that point, a mother was given a final chance to...

Landlords can often move their offices several times during a long lease, meaning that the original address for service of documents on them becomes obsolete. When a landlord does so, it is important for them to inform their tenant(s) properly and not rely...

Entering into informal property transactions without the benefit of legal advice is a recipe for disaster, as a young man found out when his relationship with his girlfriend ended acrimoniously and she insisted that he had no interest in the house that they...

The right to die or to refuse medical treatment is a complex issue that has been the subject of debate for many years. It presents considerable legal, as well as moral, difficulties. Recently, the Court of Protection had to decide whether a 36-year-old...

Accountants who perform due diligence work on acquisitions are almost always in the firing line if the deal does not provide the expected outcome for the purchaser, but a recent case shows the limits of their liability in such cases. The case involved the...

It may be thought that if an investment is entered into using a UK-based firm, that investment is covered by one of the statutory schemes established to protect investors. However, this is not always the case, and it is important to understand the...

There is a general rule in law, which applies to leases as well as contracts generally, that a legal agreement will normally be taken by the court to mean what it says, not what one of the parties to it thinks (or hopes) it should mean. That point was...

The dangers of trying to upset the provisions of a properly drafted will were made clear in a recent case in which the daughter of a wealthy man insisted on having his will formally 'proved' in court, after he had excluded her from benefiting under it by...

Owning a property at the top of a slope that was unstable presented a couple with obvious challenges, but when these were compounded by problems caused by leakage of water and sewage from a pipe lying in a trench at the bottom of their garden, they faced a...