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As house prices rise and younger generations find it harder and harder to get on the property ladder, it becomes more and more common for them to ask family and friends to help out with the deposit or even some of the purchase price. Sometimes that might be in the form of a loan, with […]

Reservations! And despite my love of pork and shellfish, I must be the biggest Jewish princess of them all because I spent my weekend making speculative restaurant bookings for April to July in the hope that Boris doesn’t bottle it and make us stay in lockdown. I used a number of different sites to book […]

Defamation seems to be the buzz word of the moment. I’ve had more enquiries from clients about things that have been written and said about them (mostly on social media) over the past three months than I probably had in the whole of the previous three years. It may be that this is yet another […]

We certainly live in interesting times, so much so that it is hard to think that we will ever go back to “normal”, whatever that means. Whilst many of the changes are hard to deal with (I’m certainly missing regular quantities of Guinness, prosecco and gossip – although my liver may say otherwise!) others are […]

One of the many things I stopped doing during lockdown was reading the news. I still read professional publications such as law reports, and I read some financial news such as the FT and newsletters from organisations such as Hargreaves Landsdown, but I don’t do the popular press or social media any more, as I’ve […]

It used to be said that there was no such thing as bad publicity. I’m not so sure that that is as true as it used to be, but I bet a guy called Waymouth is certain that it’s definitely not true, or at least not for him. In case you haven’t read about him, […]

Walking home with my son one day some years ago, when he was quite young, I asked him (as I often did) what he’d done that day. He very proudly told me that he’d evolted.  Eventually we’d established that he meant he’d evolved, but still the word is used in our household even to this […]

A Judge’s word is final and you would hope so too otherwise what is the point in a final order? But what if circumstances change and your ‘final order’ is no longer fit for purpose? Let’s take divorce as an example, your final order states that spousal maintenance is to be paid to your ex […]

I’m sure that many people have a mistaken view of what legal work is like.  Probably many of them watch TV programs and Hollywood films where the hero bursts in to the court at the last minute with that all important missing document or key witness and blows the case wide open and the heroine […]

Struggling to agree on who is entitled to what following divorce but want to avoid contested divorce proceedings? It is often hard for divorcing couples to come to an agreement as to the division of their assets, even if they have separated on good terms and are trying to come to an agreement amicably. In […]