It is not unusual for land and property to be held within a trust for the benefit of family members (and is a particularly common arrangement for farming families). Predictably, this arrangement can enter choppy waters when one of the beneficiaries wants – or needs - to sell their share.

The legislative approach to consumer protection in the UK is widely acknowledged as being disjointed and ambiguous, resulting in confusion between businesses and consumers as regards their respective rights and obligations when contracting for goods, services and digital content.

Allowing horse owners to graze their animals on your land is one way of securing an income on under utilised pasture.

If the wishes of the deceased have, genuinely, not been included within a will there may be a claim for the will to be amended. Legally, this is often referred to as being a claim for ‘rectification’.

If a tenant has not paid a quarter’s rent and the premises is sublet then it is possible for the landlord to serve what is known as Section 6 Notice.

It appears that a number of landlords are asking tenants with a tenancy agreement under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, to sign anew agreement in order to take advantage of larger Inheritance Tax reliefs.

Restaurants are closed for everything except take away services. Supermarkets are struggling to supply staples, but the nation still needs feeding. Most workers will be eating at home rather than in and around the workplace for some time to come. The recipe for feeding the nation has changed with immediate effect, by government order.

On 4 November 2019 the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) (UT) handed down its judgment, dismissing the appeal made by a trustee in bankruptcy, that the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) had jurisdiction to decide whether the bankrupt held a beneficial interest in a jointly owned property.

Even before the Coronavirus outbreak, you may have wondered “Do I need a Will?” or “I’m too young to write a Will”. Although most people writing Wills in the UK are older than 50, you could write a Will from the age of 18.

In July 2020 we secured an Ombudsman decision in our client’s favour where their insurance claim had been denied.