Private Client Articles

The High Court has rejected a man’s claim that he was entitled to inherit his brother’s estate instead of the brother’s wife. The claim was raised nine years after the final estate accounts had been signed. The issue arose because in...

A banker has lost her discrimination claim after jokes about her grey hair were described by a judge as “part of the irritation of day-to-day office life”. She was made redundant after her employer noted that she had only brought in roughly a...

The executor of a will has been jailed after he refused to give his nephew and niece their part of their grandmother’s inheritance. The uncle simply refused to say what he did with the money, so he was found in contempt of court and had to be located...

New government plans aim to make flexible working the ‘default’ and a right from the beginning of employment. The programme would not be limited to hybrid (office-home) but also include job-sharing, flexitime, and working compressed, annualised...

A woman has failed to overturn her mother's will, after claiming it left too much to her formerly estranged sister. The claimant failed to prove that her sister had “poisoned” her mother’s mind, so the court ruled that the will should...

Fundamental changes championed by the Court of Protection came into force on the 1 st of January 2023 and are soon to be enforced permanently from February 2023. The registration process to become someone’s deputy, that is to act on their behalf if...

A youth support worker has lost his disability discrimination claim because a tribunal ruled that the law was only designed to protect disabled workers against unfair treatment, it was not intended to give them an advantage over their colleagues. The case...

A salesman has won an unfair dismissal claim after he was fired for making personal calls on the company phone and giving a customer his personal phone number, because his employer made no attempts to contact him during the disciplinary proceedings. The...

Prolonged by a year to the end of December 2023, the scheme allows new buyers to provide mortgages that cover 95% of the total value of their property. This will help people with 5% deposits on to the property ladder. The government has extended the...

The government is to use its levelling up strategy to put pressure on developers to deliver more homes more quickly and make it easier for councils to regenerate disused land to create thriving communities. Amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration...