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The courts have the power to order claimants to provide financial security to ensure that the defendants can recover their costs if the claim is unsuccessful. Recently, the sons of...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a 15-year-old child should be allowed to legally change their given name, overturning an earlier decision of the High Court. At the...

A person who is in adverse possession of registered land may apply to the Land Registry to be registered as its owner on the basis of ten years’ adverse possession...

The Income Tax rates and allowances for the 2025/26 tax year are largely unchanged from the 2024/25 year. The Personal Allowance – the amount you can earn before you...

The Family Court has granted a husband’s application for a divorce he obtained in India to be recognised by the English courts. The husband and wife were both Indian...

A TV producer’s partner who was left nothing in his will has commenced High Court proceedings seeking financial provision from his estate. The producer passed away in 2019, at...

The Court of Protection recently granted an application by two NHS trusts for authorisation to carry out a planned caesarean in respect of a woman who was due to give...

In a case in which a man was named as a girl’s father on her birth certificate but was subsequently discovered not to be her biological father, the High Court...

The Court of Appeal has reinstated an earlier ruling of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) that a taxpayer was not resident in the UK for Income Tax purposes during the 2015/16...

It is always advisable to check the service charges you are asked to pay rather than simply assuming they are correct. This point was illustrated by a recent case in...