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The widespread belief that ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’ can all too easily lead the unwary into breaching planning rules. That was certainly so in a case concerning a...

When an investment is made in a capital asset that subsequently becomes valueless, the loss can normally be used to reduce future liabilities to Capital Gains Tax when a capital...

If parents engaged in child contact disputes take up entrenched positions, it is very nearly always the child that suffers most. Such disputes can often be defused by taking legal...

Lending money to the public is, for obvious reasons, a heavily regulated activity and, as a case concerning timeshare properties showed, any involvement by those who are not authorised to...

The High Court of Justice is a very expensive place to resolve a family dispute, as is evidenced by a recent case which pitted members of a farming family against...

The law allows people who occupy land over a long period and use it as their own, without anyone else asserting ownership rights to it, to apply to have their...

Scams of all shapes and sizes are becoming depressingly frequent and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned against the rising tide of pensions scams that leave people facing years...

The Supreme Court recently decided a case which made clear some of the limits that apply when financial issues were resolved within a consent order at the time of a...

When a person’s affairs are being managed by someone else under a lasting power of attorney (LPA), there are strict rules about what the attorney can and cannot do with...

Care orders for children that result in them being taken away from their parents are not made lightly. When a 14-year-old girl was assessed as having ‘a range of complex...