It’s a love hate relationship

Being a mother of teenage children is a bit like being a solicitor. Everyone hates you, until they need you and then they can’t get enough of you. If the phone rings and it’s one of my wonderful children, you can bet that I’m either in trouble for something or they are, and I’m required to […]

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

But what does Christmas look like to you? Its not just nuclear families with mum, dad and 2.1 kids pulling crackers at the dinner table and rocking around the Christmas tree this Christmas. Blended families are becoming more and more the norm in modern life. In these new step families, what rights and responsibilities do […]

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Suspected Fraudster Sent to Jail Just in Time for Christmas

Steven Long, both in his personal capacity and as a director of various companies including Universal Wealth Preservation, was given an immediate custodial sentence of 8 months by Mrs Justice Rose following a hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday 14 December 2018. Long is subject to High Court proceedings as a result […]

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

    As a nation of animal lovers, people tend to treat and think of their pets as members of the family with equal rights and human feelings.  Whilst in practice that may be true, in law an animal is treated as a chattel, which is no different from a painting or a piece of […]

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There’s no place like HMO

      Calling all Landlords! Having an HMO, (house in multiple occupation) can be very profitable .  By letting properties out as shared households, rather than just to one family.    However, since 1st October 2018 tighter restrictions have been put in place that cannot be ignored.    The new restrictions have been made […]

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I am officially free!

    I’m often known for being good value for money, but you might not always have thought of me as being free. Well today I am! In fact, I’ve been free since Wednesday. That’s when I became a Freeman (Free Woman? Free Person????) of the Guild of Entrepreneurs at a wonderful ceremony at St […]

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Where there is a marriage, there should be a new Will

Marriage is one of the life events that greatly affects a person’s individual circumstances. There is more to marriage than simply exchanging rings, vows of love and affection and popping a few bottles of champagne. Marriage also entails a whole lot of ‘administrative chores’ that spouses will need to carry out to reflect this important […]

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Christmas is not the only expensive holiday

With Christmas only a few weeks away, the sales already on and New Year’s Eve parties on the horizon, many people are already counting their pennies and wondering if they’ll have enough to last them into new year.   If you are an employer, holidays can come with added financial burdens, and not just from […]

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Ho ho ho

Christmas is a great time for good stories.  I don’t mean the Christmas story itself or stories about Santa, but simply the things that people do or say at this time of year that wouldn’t be as funny at any other time of year.   Take the story of the Manchester United football fans from […]

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