Password Puzzles – how safe is your online password?
How safe is your password? The answer seems to depend on what site you go to. Many sites try to protect you by enforcing password rules.
Reservation of Benefit: where are we now?
Any probate practitioner needs a working knowledge of Inheritance Tax (“IHT”). Originally intended to catch the wealthy, the increase in house prices particularly in the South East of England [...]
Can you enforce payment of your fees after a home meeting? – You might well be prevented!
Although this case concerns a litigation matter and its funding it shows just how careful you need to be in having meetings or discussions at a client’s home or place of business and the client [...]
Court of Protection update for practitioners
The scope of the jurisdiction of the Court of Protection (“COP”) is extremely broad: the elderly, the young, the vulnerable all being incapacitated in a variety of ways. Significant advances in [...]
Mistake & Power of Attorney – Day & another v Day [2013] EWCA Civ 280
An application seeking the rectification of a Conveyance of a property was the subject matter of a recent case considered by the Court of Appeal. This interesting case highlights the Court’s [...]
Farm complacency, active husbandry with the surviving spouse exemption
Farms are invariably run as family farming partnerships, often a husband and wife and their children. In a large number of cases the land is still held in the names of the parents and often, as [...]
