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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
19 September 2014
Let me in. Where there’s a tenancy, there are tenants’ rights
For any landlord, the cantankerous tenant can be a nagging unwelcome problem. There is a juxtaposition between complicity in a ‘quick fix’ and slaloming through landlord and tenant laws to solve what can quickly become a time consuming and stressful issue. Whether the property is commercial or residential, the procedure for ousting a tenant can be intricate and unforgiving if shortcutted. Written tenancy agreement or not, rent arrears, concerns of disrepair or in the event of more unusual tenant behaviour, landlords and their letting agents all too often get it wrong. Naturally, this results in financial consequences and like so many recurring legal issues, it all could have been avoided at an earlier stage.
9 September 2014
“Trusting” fraudulent family
In the case of Arthur James Watts v John Harris Watts (2014) the High Court has recently awarded damages for deceit and breach of trust to a claimant beneficiary who was the victim of a fraudulent misrepresentation made by a trustee.
2 September 2014
Legal update: Trial by jury in defamation claims - the exception rather than the rule
Tim Yeo v Times Newspapers Ltd [2014] EWHC 2853 (QB)
This case concerned a libel action brought by the claimant Tim Yeo MP (Y) against the defendant, The Times Newspapers Ltd (T).
1 September 2014
Famous painters and secret trusts
Judgment has now been given at the High Court in London in the dispute over Lucian Freud’s £96 million estate. Freud was an internationally-recognised and highly successful artist and draughtsman. His residuary estate after payment of legacies and inheritance tax but before administration expenses was estimated by the claimants to be worth about £42 million. The first claimant, Diana Rawstron, was Freud’s’s solicitor and the second claimant, Rose Pearce, was one of his children. They were the executrices of the disputed will. The defendant, Paul Freud, was one of his 14 children.
26 August 2014
Corporate fraud – what is it and how should it be dealt with?
Corporate fraud is prolific in our society. What are the most common types of corporate fraud and how should they be dealt with?
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