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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...

Distance 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...

When 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...

In 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...

When 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...

In 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...

A 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...

In 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...

The 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...

When 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...