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Changing Practices – the future starts now

The legal world is changing – to survive, family lawyers will need to consider new and innovative ways to provide services to their clients. On a freezing cold afternoon at...

March 12, 2018
Opinion

Commonhold: Panacea or Placebo?

Leaseholds are today the most common form of ownership especially in the South, with new build flats nearly rivalling new build houses which has been compounded by the shortage of...

March 9, 2018

Chun Wong

Opinion

Held to account

Three cases restore Patrick Allen’s faith in civil justice There are few reasons to be cheerful as we survey the political and economic landscape in 2018, so it is heartening to reflect on…

March 6, 2018

Patrick Allen

Opinion
  • sexual-offences

New Sentencing Guidelines on Domestic Abuse

On 22nd February the Sentencing Council published new sentencing guidelines for cases of domestic abuse. The courts will use these guidelines when determining sentences in cases for other offences that...

March 6, 2018
Opinion

The buzzword for 2018: GDPR

On 25th May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) will come into force in the EU and align data protection rights for citizens in member states. Data protection is...

March 5, 2018

Chun Wong

Opinion

Head in the Right Direction…Help For Carers of the Brain Injured

In the UK, there are over one million people who have suffered a brain injury. The impact on the individual will be life changing and often procedures are put in...

March 5, 2018

Karen Mann

Opinion

Catastrophic Injury: Working collaboratively towards rehabilitation. European Neuro Convention 2018 at the Excel London 6th & 7th June

Rehabilitation: A Noun: The action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction or illness In my practice as a Personal Injury lawyer...

February 28, 2018

Anne Sanders

Opinion

Rough Sleeping – Corbyn promises 8000 new homes and land purchasing powers for local authorities

There has been a 15% increase in 2017 in rough sleeping and this is the seventh consecutive year of increase. The problem is tangibly growing worse every year and there...

February 26, 2018
Opinion

The test for capacity: Banks v MCA 2005

One of the grounds in which a Will can be challenged is lack of capacity. The test for capacity was established as far back as 1869 in the case of...

February 19, 2018

Chun Wong

Opinion

Valuing General Damages

Thousands of people have suffered a personal injury as a direct result of an accident due to no fault of their own. A claim can be made against the negligent party...

February 16, 2018
Opinion

Claimant ordered to repay damages received after court finds that accident was staged

Teare J in the High Court has ordered that the claimant in a personal injury case should pay back the damages he received from insurers, plus costs and interest, in…

February 16, 2018
Blog

Rose Heilbron and the Cameo Cinema murders

Rose Heilbron was one of the first female QCs. She was an extraordinary lawyer and her first murder case as leading Counsel, Rex v George Kelly was extraordinary too. As…

February 16, 2018
Opinion
  • disrepair

The law gets tough on the fight against rogue landlords

The Guardian recently reported that government figures reveal an estimated 338,000 properties rented by under-35s were ‘hazardous and likely to cause harm.’ These figures suggest that over half a million...

February 16, 2018
Blog

Does it matter how you own a property?

For all those people who own or are looking to buy a property with someone else, you need to be clear how you hold the property and the differences because...

February 13, 2018

Chun Wong

Opinion

Take Measures to Avoid a Bad Romance

Valentine’s Day or in the alternative the trendier Gal-entines and Pal-entines Day is upon us once again. What could possibly go wrong on one of the most romance filled days…

February 13, 2018

Usheena Patel

Opinion

The Cycle Helmet Debate

In the UK, unless you are taking part in certain sports competitions, wearing a cycle helmet is not compulsory. The debate as to whether cycle helmets should be made a…

February 7, 2018

Emma Hall

Opinion

One step closer: the Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill

In our November blog we campaigned for constituents to contact their MPs’ in order to support the revived Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill, a...

February 7, 2018

Edward Sharp

Opinion

Taking the complexities out of inheritance tax – Surely it’s time for change?

The Chancellor has written to the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) asking them to review and simplify the inheritance tax (IHT) regime noting that it and the ‘system within which...

February 6, 2018

Nicola Waldman

Opinion

‘Advise, resolve, learn’

The new mantra of NHS Resolution (formerly known as the NHS litigation authority) is catchy but perhaps the word learn would be better placed at the front of the list....

February 5, 2018

Emma Wray

Opinion

Street Homelessness Levels Continue to Soar

The Guardian writes that in England rough sleeping “has increased for the seventh consecutive year”. This article goes on to list several shocking statistics. For those who work in housing...

February 5, 2018
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