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Featured news 25 Mar 2025 The Modern Landed Estate Podcast – How can an estate go about developing 100 houses?

We have been advising the owners of rural and urban estates throughout our long history and are attuned to the multiple challenges owners face to run the estate effectively, from economic instability, the impact of changing regulations to the...

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11 Feb 2021 Will the “Shecession” lead to a rise in maintenance claims on divorce?

The world has been dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic for over a year and while people are acutely aware of the limitations it poses on their lives on a daily basis, we are now beginning to see the wider impact of

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10 Feb 2021 Haley v Haley: The Future Of Arbitration In Family Law

Our experts examine how a recent Court of Appeal judgment has radically changed the future arbitration landscape in the context of divorce proceedings.

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09 Feb 2021 Post-Covid: Wellness in the design of working spaces

The pandemic has had a huge impact on workplaces, with many of us having made the shift from office-centric working to working entirely from home. Whilst the benefits of this new way of working are clear, including

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09 Feb 2021 Disclosure of Cross Border Arrangements

In one of the first examples of the ‘Brexit effect’ in operation, there was an unexpected, last-minute change of UK law on 30 December 2020 to limit the UK’s adoption of EU Directive ‘DAC6’.

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09 Feb 2021 SDLT for non-residents

SDLT is set to rise by 2% from 1 April 2021 for non-UK residents purchasing residential property in England and Northern Ireland.

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09 Feb 2021 Forthcoming Budget

The Chancellor will deliver his Spring Budget on 3 March.

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09 Feb 2021 Wealth Tax Report

In December 2020, The Wealth Tax Commission (WTC) published its final report on whether a UK wealth tax is desirable and deliverable.

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21 Jan 2021 RIBA/BIID Professional Services Contracts

Often the basis of Interior Designer’s appointment on a project is just an informal exchange of emails, offering neither the Client or the Designer certainty and rarely providing the clarity needed in regards to the Designer’s services or fees.

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05 Feb 2021 The new national design code for property development refers to “beauty” for the first time in 74 years – a positive change for development?

The Government has published a new design code for residential and commercial property developments and the word ‘beauty’ has been introduced as a key parameter. The overall emphasis of the document is a shift

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04 Feb 2021 The rise of aggressive tactics against employees

Some employers in sectors badly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic are increasingly using aggressive tactics to save money.

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04 Feb 2021 Children’s Mental Health Week

This week marks Children's Mental Health Week and it could not have come at a more apt time. We have now been faced with Covid-19 restrictions for almost a year and the vast majority of children are not currently in

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02 Feb 2021 From Bridgerton to Duchess Boodleton. Latest commentary from Lady Whistledown’s closest modern-day adversary.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a singleton in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a pre-nup." So the saying goes.

The more canny of those amongst you, dear readers, will be

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01 Feb 2021 Protective construction: PTNZ v AS & ors [2020] EWHC 3114 (Ch)

The role of a trustee is one of great responsibility and, occasionally, great difficulty. In the case of many trusts established during the lifetime of a settlor, a professional person or entity may be appointed to

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01 Feb 2021 A further blow to bricks and mortar retail but it is not over yet!

In the past few days we have seen Boohoo purchase the Debenhams brand and today it has been announced that Asos have purchased Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT from Arcadia Group. Neither of these deals

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24 Apr 2017 All at sea – art auctions on cruise ships

Becky Shaw explains what to do if you suspect your holiday purchase is a forgery.

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26 Jan 2017 What price conditional exemption?

In these days of financial austerity owners are looking ever more closely at ways of reducing their liabilities.

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09 Jan 2017 Flooding – who is responsible?

Parts of Oxford Street were brought to a standstill on 19 January when a Thames Water burst water main caused havoc, a number of shops had to shut and stock was damaged.

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26 Jan 2017 Investing under a Power of Attorney

Re Buckley (unreported 22 January 2013)

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17 Jan 2017 FATCA – What do trustees need to do?

The UK and US governments have reached an agreement to implement a US law, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), in the UK.

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02 Jan 2017 Settlor loans and liabilities

When a settlement is in need of funds, it may be tempting for the trustees to ask the settlor to provide additional cash by way of loan.