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When faced with an intestacy, Title Research has always recommended to Personal Representatives that family trees be professionally verified before any distribution takes place. Of course, from a commercial point of view we have a vested [...]

Since 2015, UK capital gains tax (‘CGT’) now extends to non-residents, if they dispose of UK situated residential property. This may not itself be a problem for non-residents who invest into the UK residential property market. Indeed, many [...]

Home-made Wills and litigants in person are certainly a sign of our more frugal times. A recent case on such a Will and whether it was properly attested & therefore valid is Payne v Payne [2018] EWCA 985.

In the leading modern decision of Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18, Lord Walker commented that claims to an interest in land based on proprietary estoppel were “fairly rare”. However, the first half of 2018 has already seen no fewer than seven [...]

For those administering estates over the last 20, or so, years, it no longer comes as a surprise to be contacted by, say, the registrars for Lloyds Group or the Royal Bank of Scotland, and to be informed that the deceased was a defaulting [...]

Who would have thought back in March when snow disrupted our lives that come May a heatwave would build such as to challenge the record of 1976 (yes I am that old I remember it well) Here we are though – hot and frazzled trying to keep our cool [...]

Mr Graves had offshore investments in the Channel Islands, but had not declared any income in relation to offshore investments. HMRC found out about these investments and made assessments under s.29 Taxes Management Act 1970 (TMA) for the five [...]

Working in an office environment can be a wonderful way of working, particularly if the team you have is a productive, motivated and competent one. Particularly in the legal and insurance sectors, it’s vital to stay on top of the latest updates [...]

The Tolley’s Taxwise series has helped many a student of tax pass their exams. However practitioners will be missing a trick not to have to hand a copy of Volume II which provides a practical means of keeping up to date with changing legislation [...]

The vexed question of disclosure of trust documents was discussed again in Lewis v Tamplin [2018] EWHC 777. Ernest Tamplin (who died in 1985) and his wife Gladys (who died in 1988) had 6 children. The family farm of 12.3 acres passed on their [...]