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Commercial Property | 24th September 2018

Is garden land residential property?

This is a question that has excised property lawyers and tax consultants for some time, so what is the answer to selling garden land?  There...

Tamzin Mandelli

Partner, Head of Commercial Property
Family | 6th September 2018

Is there an advantage to being the Petitioner to a...

As many famous singers have lamented, “breaking up is hard to do”. On top of the emotional stress and prospect of legal proceedings, while the...

Vanessa McMurtrie

Partner, Family
Family | 28th August 2018

Taking the heat out of negotiations

Not so many weeks ago we all had to work in record high temperatures. For one of my divorcing clients a Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR)...

Vanessa McMurtrie

Partner, Family
Employment | 21st August 2018

Tips for starting a new business

Starting a small business can be an overwhelming process and there are many challenging areas. Here are some of the areas to keep in mind:...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator
Commercial & Corporate | 15th August 2018

Company Voluntary Agreements – how businesses are using them to...

In recent months, there has been a growing interest in the way businesses are using a particular type of insolvency prevention procedure – known as...

Sheralle Fisher

Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Employment | 7th August 2018

GDPR – How are businesses coping?

Now that GDPR has been in force for a number of months, we thought it was time to take a look at how it’s affecting...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator

Challenging times: what happens when a family member is cut...

High profile inheritance disputes follow celebrities and the super-rich as surely as night follows day, but such challenges are becoming increasingly common, whatever the values...

Paul Grimwood

Partner & Accredited Mediator
Residential Property | 27th July 2018

A reflection on the UK Residential property market

For some months, the residential property market has been sluggish at best. Very little property is coming onto the market, online agencies are beginning to...

David Knapp

Partner, Residential Property
Employment | 23rd July 2018

Working temperatures – when is it too hot to work?

The heatwave of summer 2018 is already being compared with the long, hot scorcher of 1976. Records have been broken across the UK, the words...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator
Dispute Resolution | 9th July 2018

Inheritance Act Claims – an application delayed is often an...

Following a death, it is possible for a claim to be made against the deceased’s estate on the basis that the distribution of their estate...

Paul Grimwood

Partner & Accredited Mediator