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If your land has been compulsorily purchased to make way for a public infrastructure project, you are entitled to full and fair compensation. Local authorities may be keen to pay...

When people die, it is the duty of the administrators of their estates to gather in their assets and distribute them to those entitled to inherit them. As a case...

Justice that can be accessed only by the super-rich is not justice at all. A High Court judge made that point in noting that financial remedy proceedings in divorce cases...

Many people believe that the notion of prenups (prenuptial agreements) is an idea best reserved for the rich and famous. If you don’t have 5 Lamborghinis in the garage, what...

There is such a thing as a reasonable excuse for failing to file your self-assessment tax return. However, in an unusual case, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) ruled that a businessman’s...

Alternative investments may offer attractive rates of return, but they should never be entered into without professional advice. A High Court case concerning numerous small investors who staked their life...

No one knows when death will come calling and it is equally a truism that, if you fail to make a professionally drafted will, you store up trouble for your...

Boundaries between properties are usually marked by a line on a small-scale Land Registry plan but they may be invisible on the ground. Precisely that difficulty was the root cause...

There can be few questions of greater importance than ‘Who is my parent?’. A judge made that point in taking the unprecedented step of enabling rectification of an adopted woman’s...

In a ruling which will be greeted with joy by the growing community of self-builders, a couple who made a very handsome return on their ‘Grand Designs’-style project have been...