The best way to ensure that your affairs are in order when you die is to make a will. This allows you to carefully consider what you want and clearly set out your wishes. Unfortunately the reality is that not everyone makes a will and this can be for a number of reasons such as lack of time or not considering that their death could be imminent. As a result some people will make gifts or promises on their deathbed and there are occasions where a court will uphold promises of this nature. The technical term for a deathbed gift is a donatio mortis causa.

Buying any business is a daunting prospect – even if you have plenty of experience under your belt. Buying into a sector where the one of the main variables is out of your control, namely the weather, can be particularly unnerving.

Following the recent media excitement over the case Ilott v Mitson there has been a further interesting case under the Inheritance Act.

Leaving aside James Brown’s motivation for writing this song, my literal interpretation touches on a very current and important issue – ‘women in manufacturing’

The long-awaited Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 comes into force in England and Wales on 31 July 2019. The Act was given Royal Assent in April 2017 and will be well received by many.

We have been told for a number of years that people are increasingly shopping online and visiting our high streets less.

On 5 July 2017, the Supreme Court handed down its judgement in the case of RFC 2012 Plc (in liquidation) (formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland often referred to as ‘the Rangers big tax case’.

In spite of recent changes to the subsidy regime and receiving a rough ride from both local communities and planning authorities, land is still being sought in earnest up and down the country for renewable energy development projects.

The number of UK citizens owning holiday homes outside UK has increased, according to government statistics, from 104,000 in 1994/95 to 231,000 in 2003/04. Spain and France are the most popular countries with USA a distant third.

In English law, to make a valid will, a testator must have their signature to it witnessed by two adult independent witnesses. The current social distancing measures together with self-isolation to protect the particularly elderly and vulnerable, therefore present a challenge for private client practitioners: how do we ensure that wills are valid when we can’t stand within 2 metres of one another?