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The leaseholders of a flat in a separate wing of a country house have succeeded in their appeal against a determination that they were liable to pay service charges in...

The Family Court has ruled on an application for financial remedies in a case which involved a range of assets and was characterised by animosity and dispute. The husband...

The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has rejected a woman’s argument that her former husband was liable to tax on half of the income from a rental property they jointly owned. ...

In cases regarding medical treatment, judges sometimes have to make difficult decisions urgently in very sad circumstances. Recently, the Court of Protection ruled that it was in the best interests...

A woman who stole her daughters’ inheritance has been handed a prison sentence and ordered to pay back the money. The woman’s mother passed away in 2013. The woman...

The Family Division of the High Court has granted a couple’s application for a parental order in respect of a boy who was born to a surrogate mother in California....

The Upper Tribunal (UT) has rejected a landowner’s appeal against the dismissal of his application for the determination of a boundary between a strip of land he owned and the...

A taxpayer who had completed her tax return but had not taken the final step of submitting it has successfully appealed against late filing penalties totalling £1,600 after the First-tier...

The Family Division of the High Court has refused a mother’s application for an order that her three children should be returned from England to Lithuania. The mother and...

The Law Commission has published a report, Modernising Wills Law, containing its recommendations to reform the law governing wills. The recommendations are aimed at supporting testamentary freedom, protecting testators, and...