A recent and fairly high-profile case in the North West of England has highlighted the complexities of UK laws around highways. The case was Barlow v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council and involved the claimant, Mrs Barlow, claiming compensation after she...
It is a requirement when making a Will that a person must have sufficient mental capacity – for example knowing the estimated size of their estate and who will benefit from their estate. However, what happens in the event that a person no longer has...
One of the Midlands leading residential property lawyers has praised the Government’s Stamp Duty Land Tax reduction for giving a ‘shot in the arm’ to speed up the county’s housing market. David Faulkner, an associate at mfg...
One of Worcestershire’s most respected solicitors is set to take part in a 90-mile charity cycle in memory of his brother and to raise money for three national charities. Iain Morrison, vice-chairman and Head of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs...
If you have purchased a vehicle and later discovered faults with the vehicle your rights and remedies will very much be dependent on the status of the seller. Private Sellers You have to be careful when purchasing a vehicle from a private individual as...
The Ministry of Justice has recently issued a press release confirming that Wills and codicils can be witnessed via video-link. It is considered as a major breakthrough by the industry, but practitioners must be extremely careful when they look to execute a...
Q1: What is a redundancy? Redundancy is defined in s139(1) of the Employment Rights At 1996 as the closure of a business or workplace, or the diminished requirement for employees to do work of a particular kind. Restructures and redundancy can take place...
COVID-19 associated deaths have recently passed 41,000, while the weekly number of deaths for 2020 has been above a five year average since mid-March. As the number of deaths hopefully decline further, the focus will turn to the estates of those who fell...
30 July 2020, the Insolvency Service published its quarterly insolvency statistics for April to June 2020. Surprisingly despite these tentative times, company insolvencies in England and Wales have declined by one-third compared to the same quarter ending...