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Family | 9th February 2018

The names of both parents on marriage documentation

  When a divorce petition is sent to court, one of the requirements is to include a certified copy of the marriage certificate. For a...

Vanessa McMurtrie

Partner, Family

Stacking the Deck – Again! Further cost obstacles for claimants

In June this year my blog “Justice for All?” looked at how changes to the costs rules since April 2013 had benefitted Defendants at the...

Isabel Bathurst

Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Clinical Negligence | 5th January 2018

Hart Brown secures a six-figure settlement in clinical negligence case.

The court has now approved the settlement on a long running case in our specialist clinical negligence team involving a number of highly experienced specialists....

Isabel Bathurst

Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Commercial Property | 15th December 2017

Investing in commercial property – The pros and cons compared...

Some investors will have been looking at commercial property, either for the first time or with a new eye as a result of the recent...

Roderick Campbell

Partner, Head of Commercial Property
Commercial Property | 15th December 2017

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...

Gaenor Thomas

Associate, Commercial Property
Commercial Property | 15th December 2017

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
Commercial Property | 14th December 2017

‘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 Property
Family | 11th December 2017

Arbitration

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, Family
Clinical Negligence | 6th December 2017

Bereavement 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 Negligence
Family | 13th November 2017

Experts, 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, Family