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Leasehold Enfranchisement | 31st January 2017

Top Tips for Lessees for a Collective Enfranchisement or Right...

If you are a lessee or a group of lessees considering acquiring your freehold of your block of flats under the Leasehold Reform Housing and...

Emily Fitzpatrick

Partner, Head of Leasehold Enfranchisement

Playing Games with Peoples’ Lives

Is it any wonder that many people view statements by politicians with scepticism? “Say one thing and do the other” syndrome is alive and well...

Isabel Bathurst

Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Employment | 16th January 2017

Complex challenges for employers in the year ahead

Constant changes and increasing complexity have helped make employment law a frontline challenge for business and this year looks set to continue the trend. The...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator
Family | 13th January 2017

Divorce: who gets to keep the money?

When we are asked to advise a client about their financial claims in a divorce, we must have regard to a series of factors set...

Vanessa McMurtrie

Partner, Family
Employment | 11th January 2017

Hart Brown explains the legal rights of employees in relation...

With winter weather just around the corner and the recent tube and rail strikes, Jane Crosby, from law firm Hart Brown, looks at employees’ rights,...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator
Family | 3rd January 2017

Getting rocky relationships through tinsel-time

The family-focus of Christmas is often followed in January with news of unhappy couples who decide to call it quits, leading to so-called Divorce Day,...

Sharon Powell

Partner, Head of Family
Dispute Resolution | 16th December 2016

Mitson or Gloves on: An inheritance issue

The much publicised case of Ilott -v- Mitson, which has already taken up its fair share of court time finally made its way to the...

Paul Grimwood

Partner & Accredited Mediator
Commercial Property | 13th December 2016

Airbnb: short term lets could result in a breach of...

Leaseholders who have taken advantage of Airbnb type short term lettings, may now be scrutinising their leases, following the decision of the Upper Tribunal (Lands...

Anne Bridger

Senior Solicitor, Commercial Property
Commercial Property | 13th December 2016

Right to Rent and Ban on Tenants’ Fees – A...

On 1 December new criminal penalties came into force for landlords who knowingly let their property to an illegal immigrant. “One Million Landlords at Risk...

Roderick Campbell

Partner, Head of Commercial Property