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The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary has announced the extension of a groundbreaking Family Court reporting pilot. The Transparency Implementation Group Reporting Pilot is being extended to 16 more courts...

Even in long-term or married relationships, couples very often operate separate bank accounts and keep their personal finances private from one another. However, as a case concerning the High Income...

Many grieving families have sadly been torn apart by a loved one’s failure to make a professionally drafted will. Exactly that happened in a High Court case concerning two brothers...

Loving parents often allow their adult children to remain living in the family home for as long as they wish, in the expectation that they will, in due course, fly...

Parents have a right to name their children and, in modern Britain, the options open to them are almost limitless. However, as a High Court ruling showed, there are rare...

Where one person unlawfully kills another, the killer usually forfeits their right to inherit any part of the victim’s property. As a High Court ruling in an exceptionally sad case...

If you have been mis-sold a financial product, any delay in seeking legal advice may jeopardise your right to compensation – but what if facts on which you might found...

Having your will drafted by a professional involves only modest expense and has the great advantage of reducing the risk of your bequests being successfully challenged after you are gone....

In the realm of social housing, there are few more controversial issues than a child’s entitlement to succeed to the secure tenancy of a parent on the latter’s death. As...

The end of a relationship will often have important tax implications which might only be apparent to a trained professional. That was certainly so in the case of a woman...