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Rebuilding lives after brain injury: the role of the Court of Protection
Jemma Garside
3 September 2014
Neither a borrower (with foreign income or gains used as collateral) nor a lender be…
Others may be on holiday in August, but not HMRC, who chose August 2014 to take taxpayers by surprise and change their stated position, with immediate effect, on the taxation of foreign income and gains used by UK resident, non UK domiciled individuals claiming the remittance basis (Remittance Basis Users - “RBUs”) as security for loans used in the UK.
31 July 2014
Protecting children's wealth on divorce and remarriage
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sleepless in Seattle, Miracle on 34th Street – all heart-warming tales of single parents who find love again. But all are alarmingly silent about whether the parent in question took steps to protect their wealth for their children’s future.
10 July 2014
Constructive trusts and the potential interplay of foreign and religious laws
Constructive trusts are a flexible remedy imposed by courts to correct perceived injustices in relation to the beneficial ownership of property. The recent case of Bal Mohinder Singh v Jasminder Singh & Herinder Singh ([2014] EWHC 1060 (Ch)), which involved a dispute over family property, is interesting as it looked at constructive trusts in the context of religion and foreign law.
30 May 2014
Challenge to remove Jimmy Savile’s Executors fails
The beneficiaries of Jimmy Savile’s estate have been at loggerheads with his Executors following fears that compensation claims to his victims may use up all the money in his Estate.
30 May 2014
Disputed Will case - Estranged daughter fails to overturn father’s Will on multiple counts
In one recent case a daughter who had fallen very far out of her father’s favour tried almost every trick in the book to have his Will declared invalid (Bateman v Overy and another ([2014] EWHC 432)).