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Family | 4th November 2015

Family matters: Dealing with a breakdown

Family breakdowns can be the result of long periods of heartbreak, sadness and unhappiness, but it's important to remember that the difficult decision to break...

James Ward

Family | 14th October 2015

Fraud unravels all

Family lawyers will today be breathing a sigh of relief for their clients that the highest court in the land has today ruled that there...

Julian Waldon

Associate, Family
Commercial Property | 28th September 2015

Council pays the price for incorrect local search result

In the recent case of Chesterton Commercial (Oxon) Ltd v Oxfordshire County Council, the High Court held that a local authority (LA) was liable to...

Anne Bridger

Senior Solicitor, Commercial Property
Residential Property | 25th September 2015

Builders and Developers – VAT Zero Rating of Residential Property...

A developer thought that he had constructed a new dwelling and that the sale of it was a zero rated supply so that the input...

Roderick Campbell

Partner, Head of Commercial Property

Residential Landlords’ Update

Residential landlords get some good news and bad news this month.  The good news is that the deadline for registering multi-let properties that have a...

Roderick Campbell

Partner, Head of Commercial Property
Commercial Property | 25th September 2015

Retail Beware: A new proposal for shopping on Sunday

At the moment, shops and retail in England and Wales over 280 sq m can only open between the hours of 10.00am and 6.00pm, for a...

Gaenor Thomas

Associate, Commercial Property
News | 3rd August 2015

The return: A weekend of showjumping

Hart Brown’s Emily Wiggins and her horse Basil returned to the showjumping circuit after a 4 month break recovering from an injury this weekend. Basil...

Emily Wiggins

Consultant, Trusts & Estates
Dispute Resolution | 29th July 2015

Pro Bono Bonus

The government has recently said that lawyers need to do more pro bono work which most of us already do in one form or another....

Paul Grimwood

Partner & Accredited Mediator
Dispute Resolution | 23rd July 2015

Can it be illegal to comply with the law of...

Sounds like a barmy question don't you think? Well, if you wanted another example of how complicated modern life is becoming then one needs to...

Paul Grimwood

Partner & Accredited Mediator