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The ability to be able to correctly identify the information that you are given during an assessment is absolutely crucial when attempting to determine if someone has capacity.

Although this slim book feels more aimed at health practitioners it will, nonetheless, be of great practical benefit to legal professionals too. After reading this concise and engaging practical [...]

This case will be helpful to those seeking to prove a Will if it is known that the testator had dementia at the time of signing the Will. Although each case will turn on its own facts, here the [...]

“This book deals with the complex systems that regulate the provision of legal services and the risks faced by individual lawyers in their day to day work” so says the author John Gould of [...]

The Claimants in this case were the trustees of a will trust, in which capacity they were the freehold owners of the Albert Arms Public House (the ‘Property’). There were three Defendants: one of [...]

Stamina and resilience are strengths which get sports players through tough matches and the military through times of conflict. Both strengths seem to be missing in many of our politicians [...]

Finally, Italy has a new law legalising the civil partnership between same sex couples and providing regulation for cohabitants. Itbecomes the 27th country in Europe to legally recognize same [...]

As we all know, not just anyone can challenge Will. There has to be some nexus before a challenge can be brought. Otherwise anyone could challenge anyone else as well, irrespective of whether [...]

The Court of Appeal considered the law relating to testamentary capacity in the recent case of Burns v Burns [2016] EWCA Civ 37. The case concerned an appeal from the decision of DJ Woodburn [...]

How you save for retirement and what you do with the money once you stop working are some of the biggest and complicated decisions you will ever make, so it is important to understand what the [...]