The human and economic damage being wrought by Covid-19 is terrible and should not be understated. The depressed level of asset values and current tax reliefs do though mean that there are planning opportunities for far-sighted taxpayers.
Given that domestic abuse rates increase by around 26% when England win or draw and a staggering 38% when they lose, it is clear that football during the festive period could have very serious consequences for those in abusive relationships.
The Government made its hardline splash on cutting legal migration, allowed its liberal critics their airtime whilst publicly holding the line - and slipped in some concessions just as the electorate is packing up for the Christmas holidays and thinking about other things. So, what's new?
CSI is an award-winning international enterprise offering design and management of critical IT solutions, including cloud, data protection and cyber security services.
Our client is a computer games developer, with offices in England, Poland and Spain, which has developed critically acclaimed AAA products for international gaming studios and publishers.
In an ongoing unfair prejudice petition presented in the High Court, at extremely short notice we were instructed to prepare an Amended Points of Defence and Counterclaim together with a Witness Statement in support of the client’s application to amend his Points of Defence, less than a week before a hearing was listed to hear the application of the same.
People can be difficult, relationships can be difficult, families can be difficult…
It is well established that it is contrary to public policy to allow a criminal to reap any benefit from his/her crime. This also applies to a criminal benefitting from gifts by a Will (or upon intestacy) and to property passing automatically by survivorship.
The law surrounding provision for adult children in the context of the Inheritance Act 1975 has been somewhat in turmoil in recent years following the much publicised Ilott case, and a spate of other claims.
We are acting for a 50-year-old wife in divorce proceedings after a 25 year old marriage.