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Claudia’s law: dealing with a missing person’s affairs

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.

Our high street stores and the pensions connection

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

Rangers tax case: HMRC buoyed by the rise of the purposive approach

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’.

Have an eye to the future before agreeing an easement

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.

What to do if your relative dies with assets abroad

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.

How to make or amend a will during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown

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?

Liverpool FC and Waitrose salvage reputations

Making ill-judged decisions under pressure are perhaps inevitable. Nonetheless, anyone advising Liverpool Football Club on how to manage their reputation would hopefully not have recommended that they seek to furlough ordinary staff while its playing staff remained on full salaries.

Law & Land: news roundup

The new year started positively for three members of the agriculture team.

Coronavirus: The growing insurance war

A leading disputes lawyer believes a “growing insurance war” could last longer than the Covid-19 crisis which has sparked it. Several small businesses across the UK have voiced their anger around being denied insurance pay-outs despite believing they were specifically covered against the global pandemic.

Flurry of Inheritance Act 1975 cases

There has been a flurry of Inheritance Act 1975 cases in the last few weeks, most recently the case of Re H where an adult child claimant was successful despite her being estranged from her father and having had no financial assistance from him for a number of years prior to his death, and he had left his estate to his elderly and disabled spouse.