“This blessed plot…” – The SDLT advantages of buying vacant land

Residential conveyancing

Insights

From an SDLT perspective, buying a plot and then engaging someone to build a house on it afterwards may confer a number of SDLT blessings.

25 April 2018

40 treatments you don’t need

Medical negligence

Insights

Unnecessary medical treatments to be reduced. Changing the standards for medical negligence claims. Prostate Cancer. Cerebral Palsy. Birth Injuries

25 October 2016

A bombshell for beneficiaries: Mis-sold shared appreciation mortgages

Financial services litigation

Insights

With probate solicitors finding themselves dealing with increased cases involving complex shared appreciation mortgages, specialist financial services litigation lawyer Laura Robinson, explores the advice clients should be given.

3 September 2024

Written by

Laura Robinson (née Hazell)

A brief introduction to the Pubs Code

Property litigation

Insights

The Pubs Code came into force on 21 July 2016 with the aim of regulating the relationship between tied pub tenants (“TPTs”) and their landlords.

31 January 2018

Written by

Laura Robbetts

A question of interpretation – repair or structural defect?

Property litigation

Insights

This is a closer look at the Court of Appeal decision in Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London v Various Leaseholders of Great Arthur House [2021] EWCA Civ 431.

6 May 2021

Written by

Kary Withers

Accidents Abroad and Uninsured Drivers – How should Damages be decided?

Serious injury

Insights

Accidents abroad. Uninsured driver. Compensation rules of country in which accident took place or rules of England and Wales. Supreme Court decision.

11 August 2016

Acting as an executor: how to protect yourself from personal liability

Court of Protection

Insights

Executors of a Will, or administrators of an intestate estate have a number of different duties to discharge when administering an estate.

18 July 2019

Written by

Anthony Fairweather

and

Anne Minihane

Adultery and divorce settlements

Family law

Insights

Our specialist divorce solicitors explain whether your, or your spouse’s, adultery will affect your divorce financial settlement.

6 April 2022

Agri landlords urged to act now before new bill

Agriculture

Insights

Landowners who privately rent properties are being urged to act now before new legislation is introduced which will make it more difficult to evict tenants.

29 September 2023

An essential guide for employers dealing with mental health issues in the workplace

Employment

Insights

Paula Squire employment lawyer provides an essential guide for employers to assist in the promotion of wellbeing and to meet your legal obligations to support employees experiencing mental health issues which could lead to claims of discrimination.

20 January 2025

Written by

Paula Squire

An MOT for your Will?

Wills & probate

Insights

Our lives and finances are not static so we should not expect our Will to cater for our changed circumstances without alterations being made to it.

21 September 2020

“This blessed plot…” – The SDLT advantages of buying vacant land

40 treatments you don’t need

A bombshell for beneficiaries: Mis-sold shared appreciation mortgages

A brief introduction to the Pubs Code

Accidents Abroad and Uninsured Drivers – How should Damages be decided?

Acting as an executor: how to protect yourself from personal liability

Adultery and divorce settlements

Agri landlords urged to act now before new bill

An essential guide for employers dealing with mental health issues in the workplace

An MOT for your Will?

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