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Many couples would be left scratching their heads if asked whether they own their home as ‘joint tenants’ or ‘tenants in common’. However, in one case, the distinction led to...

Boundary disputes are by no means uncommon, especially in rural areas, where the apparent boundaries can move over time and of which maps, which are never exactly precise, tend to...

A recent report by the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) stated that the average British family pays more than £250,000 in tax (net of tax credits) during a 40-year working life. The...

The importance of the role of fathers in the lives of their children has been given more and more recognition by the family courts in recent years, as is evidenced...

The crucial importance of appointing a reliable person to act as your attorney, to manage your affairs should you no longer be able to do so yourself, was illustrated yet...

When a person misrepresents something being sold to the extent that what is being promised to the buyer is significantly different from what is delivered, the normal legal remedy is...

The national drive for more sources of renewable energy was very much in evidence as a High Court decision condemned residents of a rural area to live with views of...

When a couple divorced in 2010, the broad terms of their financial settlement were agreed very quickly with some details finalised in 2014. The agreement included the passing of the...

When the wives of two very wealthy men found that their divorce settlements had been concluded on the basis of information supplied by their husbands which was clearly wrong, a...

Everyone knows how fallible memory can be and also how easy it is to come to believe things that are not true. Normally, such aberrations are of little consequence, but...