Calling all tenants – Ideas for your Christmas list!
In the merry season of goodwill, and with landlords feeling wobbly as a result of the Brexit and 2017’s election (in addition to a glass...
Blogs
Are you ready for a visit from Father Christmas?
Third party and occupiers’ liability is something which owners and occupiers of land and property should be aware of. Indeed landlords and tenants should see...
Gaenor Thomas
Associate, Commercial Property‘Not in my back yard!’ – There may be no...
Mobile phone usage has grown massively in the last two decades. There are six times as many phones in use as there were 20 years ago...
John Guthrie
Partner, Commercial PropertyArbitration
The majority of cases we handle are settled by agreement. Before agreement can be reached, there must be disclosure and this invariably means both parties...
Vanessa McMurtrie
Partner, FamilyBereavement damages incompatible with ECHR
The Court of Appeal has recently recognised that cohabitees as well as married couples (widow/widower) and civil partners have a right to bereavement damages (Smith...
Isabel Bathurst
Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical NegligenceExperts, who needs them? A Family solicitor’s view on pensions,...
“People in this country have had enough of experts” – this was the comment reportedly made by Michael Gove, MP in June of last year....
Julian Waldon
Associate, FamilyThe falling house prices of Surrey
Following the recent publication of the RICS report that house prices were falling in certain pockets of the UK, our South East based firm has...
David Knapp
Partner, Residential PropertyFamily finances make divorce negotiations increasingly complex
Divorce rates are on the rise, according to the latest statistics, and with the increase in the value of family assets, couples should do more...
Vanessa McMurtrie
Partner, FamilyThe mortgage debate: the late 2000’s all over again?
Mortgage deals: a return to the late 2000s? The great mortgage debate of the day arises yet again, are we to see a repeat of...
David Knapp
Partner, Residential PropertyGoing Underground – Basement Excavations and Permitted Development Rights
Many planning authorities, particularly London boroughs, are having to deal with an increasing number of ‘digdowns’, as soaring house prices lead homeowners and developers to...
