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Supreme Court clarifies VAT group rules in Prudential v HMRC
Waqar Shah
20 February 2020
Has the law of contract been compromised?
A cautionary tale can be learnt from case of Neocleous v Christine Rees [2019] EWHC 2462 (Ch) a decision of the Manchester County Court which demonstrates how binding contracts can be inadvertently formed through the exchange of emails. Neocleous was a timely decision as it followed shortly after the publication of the Law Commission’s 4 September 2019 report Electronic execution of documents that the law now recognises a variety of different electronic signatures as legally binding.
19 February 2020
Loss of Chance claims and the admissibility of “new” evidence
The Supreme Court case of Edwards (on behalf of the estate of the late Thomas Arthur Watkins) v Hugh James Ford Simey (A Firm) [2019] UKSC 54 provides useful insight in professional negligence cases as to how the Courts approach the relevance of “new” evidence i.e. evidence which was not available at the time of the underlying matter, in loss of chance cases.
19 February 2020
Same Sex Relationships and Probate Disputes
In 2011, research commissioned by the well-known charity Stonewall concluded that people over 55 who were in a same sex relationship were less likely to see biological family members on a regular basis. Over half of the people surveyed felt that their sexual orientation had, or would have, a negative effect on getting older and would make life more complicated.
11 February 2020
What is the correct forum for a multi-jurisdictional probate dispute?
The recent decision in Rehman v Hamid [2019] EWHC 3692 (Ch) provides a useful reminder of the principles to be applied when determining the correct forum for a dispute arising in relation to a multi-jurisdictional estate.
7 February 2020
‘Courier’ Fraud Crackdown – Beware of fraudsters keeping it simple
February 2020 - Police say they have arrested more than 40 people in a crackdown on courier fraud involving over 3,000 victims. Police have reported that there has been a recent significant increase in these cases with total losses reported to the police of over £12 million. There are reports of individuals losing significant sums of money to these scams, such as a couple losing nearly £1million of their life savings and pensions and one victim losing £400,000.
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