Private Client Articles

When your relationship is challenging, it can feel like your whole world is out of sync. The strain of a relationship breakdown has only been made more acute by the Covid-19 pandemic affecting our livelihoods, wellbeing, and relationships. Our expert,...

A parenting plan is a written plan worked out between parents after they separate which covers all the everyday things that arise when parenting. This includes things like where the child is going to live, their education and their healthcare. The scope of...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a child should be returned to her father in France rather than remain with her mother in England. It said that even though she had only lived in the country for a few weeks, it had become her habitual place of residence. ...

An employment tribunal was wrong to rule that an employee who had worked past a notional resignation date had, in fact, resigned. It had failed to consider whether the fact that the employer had asked her to reconsider her resignation meant that there had...

An administrator of a deceased person’s estate was granted a freezing injunction for a property that had been transferred into a family member’s name to avoid tax liability. The deceased had died without making a will. The administrator of his...

An employee who suffered from paranoid delusions following the break-up of a relationship has lost his claim of disability discrimination. Mr S Sullivan had worked for a small finance company, Bury Street Capital Ltd, as a sales executive since 2008. From...

A worker who was injured because of a practical joke played by a colleague was not entitled to compensation from his employer. That was the decision of the High Court in a case involving Tarmac Cement and Lime Ltd and Andrew Chell. Mr Chell suffered a...

A grandmother who failed to get permission to have her grandson live with her can now apply again because she’s moved to a bigger house The case involved a two-year-old who was referred to in court as J. He had three siblings. The local authority...

A husband has successfully challenged a divorce settlement arrived at through arbitration and has been allowed to have the issues reconsidered in court. The wife had applied for financial relief following the marriage breakdown. After an unsuccessful...

Four siblings have succeeded in overturning their mother’s will after the court agreed that she had not fully understood its consequences when she signed it. The case pitted the mother’s first four children against her youngest child, the...