The wisdom of having professional oversight of attorney arrangements has yet again been made clear following the conviction of a Teesside couple for defrauding the estate of an elderly woman out of a six-figure sum. The woman had made her...
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When positions in a family break-up become so entrenched that even the most basic issues are disputed all the way to the court, the result can be legal costs which drive a judge ‘to despair’. Proceedings to determine the financial settlement on...
When a Canadian company decided to make a new attempt to enter the British market in 2008 with its range of washroom products, it registered its trade marks (carrying the name ‘Frost’) under the relevant classes of trade mark. Another business,...
It is widely known that deposits of money lodged with a licensed deposit taker (such as a bank) by individuals and companies are protected (currently to a monetary limit of £85,000) by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) if the licensed...
It is normal for any building divided into flats to have rules relating to the use to which the flats can be put, as well as other internal regulations. The potential scope of such regulations was tested in a recent case which dealt with whether or not it...
Cases arising from the damage done by rioters during the 2011 riots are now beginning to come to court. Recently, one such case was decided concerning the extent of the losses covered by the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 . The Act provides that compensation will...
Not well publicised in the press was the revelation that since September 2013 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have had the power to access your credit card statements by making a request for information from the companies that process credit card transactions....
Although some law is ‘common law’ and some effectively the result of decisions of the courts, when law is in written form, the exact meaning of the words used is of prime importance in interpreting what the law means, as a recent case shows...
When a family partnership broke up, the lack of precision in clauses of the partnership agreement led to an appearance in the Court of Appeal . Two farmers took their 19-year-old son into partnership in 1997. In 2009, the son gave three months’...
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court has rectified the will of a man who signed his wife's will by mistake. Alfred and Maureen Rawlings made mirror wills in 1999. Each of them left their estate to the other spouse or, if the other spouse did not survive...
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