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It’s that crucial time of year when we are all looking at the calendar to see if we have collected all the required CPD points for the year.

The function of rectification is to put right a mistake in the way the parties recorded their agreement. The problem often is that it is hard to distinguish the misapprehension about the tax [...]

Samantha Waller, from specialist probate research firm Title Research, explains the hurdles to overcome when dealing with US assets worth more than $60,000 at the date of death.

All law firms in England & Wales are required to obtain professional indemnity insurance with a common renewal date of 1st October. This requirement creates a scramble every September with about [...]

This article looks at the broad tax situation when a life assurance bond is encashed, either as a claim because the sole or last surviving life assured has died, or because the executors require [...]

The growing shift from a “literalist” to an “intentionalist” approach to Will construction is illustrated by decisions such as Blech v Blech [2002] WTLR 483 and Thomas v Kent [2007] WTLR 177. [...]

A lovely sunny morning; it’s Friday and thoughts turn to the weekend, drinks with friends; time with the family and generally achieving some work/life balance. I turn to the task of reading a [...]

... with the third successful mutual Wills case in just under a century.... Mr. Jonathan Gaunt QC sitting as a deputy Judge of the Chancery Division decided the matter of Charles v Fraser [...]

The ever difficult decision as to the division of property assets on the breakdown of a cohabitation relationship continues to cause inevitable pain. The Court of Appeal has reversed the first [...]