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Scarcely a week goes by without the Charity Commission announcing an investigation into a charity. The proliferation of issues surrounding charities in recent years has led the Government to enact the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill, which...

Business partners who failed to define their working relationship in writing – instead reaching agreements orally over bottles of red wine in a pub – paid the price when a dispute over money erupted and made its way to the Court of Appeal . ...

Giving false evidence to any court can have serious consequences, as an errant ex-husband may be about to discover. Ex-spouses are often reluctant to pay their debts to their former partner and, in one extreme case, a husband who claimed to have paid...

Gifts made more than seven years before the death of the donor do not generally attract a charge to Inheritance Tax (IHT) on the donor's death. However, where the gift is of a particularly valuable item, it makes sense to create a deed which acknowledges...

Making a verbal family agreement over the distribution of one's estate and then trusting that everything will be sorted out amicably by the family shows a very considerable degree of optimism, as a recent case illustrates. It involved yet another family...

To many people, buying or selling a 'knock-off copy' of a branded item may seem a relatively minor matter but, given that brand owners invest billions of pounds annually in promoting their brands, it is unsurprising that the law which protects their rights...

The dangers of being unprepared for the possible consequences of something as seemingly innocuous as a garden bonfire were brought home by a case which ended up in the Court of Appeal . The Court has exonerated a businessman who was sued for more than...

When a loss is caused to one party by another, the party suffering the loss will often seek redress (damages) from the person or organisation that caused it. The process is relatively straightforward when one person or organisation is responsible for the...

Dangerous dogs can ruin lives, and victims of canine attacks will be relieved to hear of an important tribunal decision which opens the way for many of those injured to seek compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). A cyclist...

Everyone knows that the end of a marriage can be bitter, but few divorces can be more so than one in which a businessman has started legal proceedings against his ex-wife, claiming £150,000 in libel damages after she bad-mouthed him on Facebook. The...