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Bringing the law of property “into the 21st Century”

Property owners are expecting the Government shortly to introduce significant changes to property law. The Queen’s Speech included a proposal for legislation to implement the recent recommendatio...

Council liable to compensate property owner for emergency closure of commercial premises

The Supreme Court has set out the circumstances in which a local authority must compensate property owners where it forces them to close down their premises. The court has defined for the first tim...

‘Last will and testament’ – but not the last word

There are more and more disputes over wills, new figures show. The number of claims issued in the High Court increased by 10% in 2015 alone. While there have always been challenges to wills from a ...

Prenups from the Bank of Mum and Dad

Parents naturally want to help their children buy somewhere to live, or set them up in life, and often this occurs on marriage. The so-called Bank of Mum and Dad will give or lend £5 billion this ...

Get ready for the online court!

The Government and the judiciary have announced that the civil courts are to be automated, with cases put online by 2020. The plan is ‘digitise’ the entire process for money claims, such as for...

When civil proceedings are malicious

If you are sued by someone else, you might feel angry and aggrieved. How dare they? The allegations are completely unjustified! They themselves are at fault! But if the proceedings against you were...

Landlord not liable for injury caused by property defect

A residential tenant will often seek to blame their landlord if they are injured by a defect at the property. But where the landlord is not made aware of a potentially dangerous defect that caused ...

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