Counsel blocked from family case over personal animosity
High Court judge backs rare step of stopping advocate from accepting further instructions.
Firm mourns ‘extraordinary and unique’ family lawyer
Dawson Cornwell announces that the head of its children department Anne-Marie Hutchinson has died.
Online probate forms mandatory for solicitors from next month
Statutory instrument laid today will apply to majority of probate cases.
Qualified solicitor, 41, loses battle for financial support from parents
Claimant had urged court not to abandon him to the ‘capricious’ decisions of his parents.
Law Commission’s consultation on marriage reforms
Much needed change is now on the horizon and it can’t come soon enough.
Inheritance tax: Exemptions and relief
Transfer of funds from pension plan was not a transfer of value, Supreme Court holds, reversing a Court of Appeal decision on inheritance tax.
Family duels
HHJ Stephen Wildblood QC fulminated about extent to which court lists are filled by private law litigation that should not require court involvement.
Letters roundup - 28 September 2020
Client due diligence during Covid, and rights for jurors: your letters to the editor.
Letters roundup - 14 September 2020
Your letters to the editor: GCs, JRs and HMCTS
