The fear that the local council will force the sale of the family home is a real one for many elderly people and their families. Recently, an attempt by...
Continue readingDistance is no obstacle to the powers of the English divorce courts, as a recent case shows. The judge came down hard on a Singapore-based businessman who first told...
Continue readingWhen the seller of a property allowed the purchaser to start the groundworks for developing it prior to the exchange of contracts for sale, she would not have expected HM...
Continue readingIn a case which vividly illustrates the difficulties faced by leaseholders wishing to take over management of their homes, residents of a block of luxury riverside apartments hit a fatal...
Continue readingWhen a man’s wife died, his decision to execute a new will less than a month later led to a legal challenge. Two earlier wills had made his wife...
Continue readingIn a ruling which underlines that mental illness does not necessarily equate to legal incapacity, the Court of Protection recently refused to open the way for doctors to perform a...
Continue readingA family judge has hailed the miraculous benefits of sitting down to a ‘nice cup of tea’ after this played a central role in healing a bitter ten-year rift between...
Continue readingIn resolving a bitter family dispute, the High Court had no hesitation in finding that the signature on a woman’s purported last will was a clever forgery designed to cheat...
Continue readingThe Court of Appeal recently ruled that when a council neglected to reduce the crowns of trees in a park for several years, thus allowing the roots to grow, it...
Continue readingWhen a couple entered into an artificial tax-saving scheme which subsequently failed, they placed the blame firmly at the door of the Isle of Man tax consultancy that had advised...
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