When the developer of a block of flats (who owned the freehold) decided to relocate the parking spaces allocated to the tenants so that it could build another block of...
Continue readingWhen a Yorkshire farmer disinherited his son and left the whole of his estate to his daughter, the son challenged the will in court. The son had worked with his...
Continue readingThe general rule that in litigation the loser pays the winner’s legal costs does not always apply, as a successful claimant found recently. The claim was made in the...
Continue readingWhen a couple inherited a house from the deceased parent of one of them, they decided that they did not wish to retain it in the long term and subsequently...
Continue readingIn 2011, there were nearly three million unmarried cohabiting couples, with or without children, in the United Kingdom. Many of these may not be aware that if their relationship were...
Continue readingEach year approximately 250,000 people are reported missing in the UK and some of these people are never seen again. In England and Wales this can often leave the missing...
Continue readingIt is common for rights of way over property to be reserved if the seller retains other land in the vicinity of the sold land to which he wishes to...
Continue readingA company director whose company provided services to a charity of which he was a trustee found himself faced with a claim from the charity that he was liable to...
Continue readingWhen a mother recently sought to stop her estranged ex-partner (who had been granted parental responsibility over their children) from seeing their two daughters because she found it ‘too upsetting’,...
Continue readingJohn Charman, the husband in the biggest contested divorce settlement in the UK, has defeated an appeal by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) against a court order refusing disclosure of...
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