Private Client Articles

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...

A mother has been awarded £60,000 after her bosses ‘gas-lighted’ her into working full-time hours after her maternity leave despite being on a part-time contract. Donna Patterson worked as a buyer in the Morrisons' supermarket online...

A father, who had promised his son that he would inherit a portion of the family farm and later disinherited him over a dispute, underwent a long legal process against his offspring. The son claimed to have worked at the farm for token wages for years under...

Despite not being her son and regardless that she had made no specific statements about his inheritance in her will and that her own child had been granted letters of administration to her assets, a 12-year-old boy has been appointed £50,000 from his...

Can you kill someone and still benefit from your victim's estate? The short answer is no. However, if it is found that a person did not intend to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (being charged with manslaughter instead of murder), they could be...

A recent survey from Which? revealed that seven in ten divorcing couples do not share their pensions. However, this could be a grave mistake when reaching a financial settlement on divorce as pensions often rank with property as the two biggest sources of...

Three siblings have failed to overturn their stepmother’s will after she left everything to her biological son. The son claimed that his mother had changed the will after the siblings’ father died so that he could look after her parrot. ...

A fashion designer in her early fifties who was passed over for promotion has been awarded £96,000 after making an age discrimination claim.  The case involved Rachel Sunderland, who had worked as a knitwear specialist for Superdry...

Although not legally binding in UK courts, the Supreme Court holds that significant weight should be given to nuptial agreements, providing certain conditions are met. Historically nuptial agreements were not valid in the UK and they were contractually void...

Measures came into force on 21 July 2022 finally banning perpetrators from cross-examining victims in the family court. This was a practice already prohibited in the criminal courts. The ban also prevents alleged victims of domestic violence from cross...