A Power of Attorney, often called a Lasting Power of Attorney or Enduring Power of Attorney if made before 2007, are legal documents created by a person, also known as the donor, whilst they have mental capacity.

Closure of the golden visa route had been speculated for years. Now with the Ukraine crisis building to the inevitable climax, it finally happened: Home Secretary Priti Patel has closed the Tier 1 Investor route with immediate effect.

It appears the UK Government is having a ‘Spring-clean’ of its Points Based System for economic migration (PBS), amid a backdrop of criticism for its perceived slow response to the Ukraine refugee crisis.

It may be that you are the beneficiary of a trust, but that you are unclear whether you are entitled to receive anything from that trust.

The ownership of a farm was at the centre of a dispute between three (of four) siblings after the death of their parents, Mr & Mrs Williams.

Reports of bullying, harassment and a toxic culture at University Hospitals Birmingham Trust (UHB), highlighted in a BBC Newsnight programme before Christmas, continue to reverberate not only in the region but also nationally.

The ownership of a farm was at the centre of a dispute between three (of four) siblings after the death of their parents, Mr & Mrs Williams. The reasons for the dispute were depressingly familiar – the partnership agreement was at odds with their father’s will, with one brother claiming that assets gifted under the will were actually partnership assets and thus rightfully his. He also employed a backstop argument, that of proprietary estoppel, on the rather flimsy premise that his father had promised him the farm some forty odd years ago.

A prenuptial agreement can provide clarity and certainty by setting out how you and your spouse will share the assets you have if you were to divorce, whilst also protecting certain categories of assets from being distributed between you.

With the focus in the construction industry and surrounding supply chain on reducing carbon emissions, driving to net zero carbon, and related building safety improvements, it is good to see that the authors of the NEC Contract have taken an important step towards facilitating sustainability in a contractual sense.

Donna Ockenden’s current review into Nottingham University NHS Trust’s maternity units has revealed that her team is looking at the files of approximately 1800 families who are thought to have been affected by poor treatment at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre's and Nottingham City Hospital's maternity units. The announcement that the Trust is now also the subject of a police investigation will have compounded the agony for the families concerned.