Blog
2025 in review: Under construction - Tax investigations
Krishna Mahajan
6 August 2018
Capacity on the cobbles, Coronation Street’s inheritance dispute storyline
Can depression invalidate a will? Anna Metadjer blogs about the importance of challenging a will at the outset and to obtain specialist legal advise.
31 July 2018
Life sustaining treatment: the importance of a Lasting Power of Attorney
On 29th July 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that families and doctors can agree to end the life sustaining care of patients in a persistent vegetative state without Court permission.
30 July 2018
Personal possessions and death
For most ordinary folk (me included) the cash value of their personal belongings ('chattels') is modest and will form but a tiny part of the overall value of an estate on death. But the sentimental value of specific items to individual family members, and the legal fees they might be prepared to spend haggling over who gets what, can be massive and wholly disproportionate.
16 July 2018
Holiday home/Retirement planning: will Brexit wreck it?
As the summer holiday season approaches, those of you lucky enough to have property abroad may be preparing to decamp to your rural idylls in Tuscany, Provence or Southern Spain. Football fans aside I’m also told Croatia is an increasingly popular holiday home destination?
4 July 2018
Interpreting an ambiguous Will clause and intentions of the testator (Tish and others v Olley and others)
Joseph Austin explains how the court applied the rules of interpretation to determine the testator’s intention by identifying the meaning of the relevant words in light of various factors, including common sense.