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• Children
• Court ruling could help many grandparent carers
• Court orders that girl should live with grandmother
• Civil Litigation
• Builder’s warning about faults not enough to avoid liability
• Woman receives compensation after walking into glass panel
• Director must pay damages after hijacking lucrative contract
• Director personally responsible for paying a company debt
• Bankruptcy petition threshold could rise to £3,000
• OFT warns consumers about promises to wipe out debts
• When a letter can amount to a written contract
• Homeowners lose boundary dispute because of adverse possession
• Golfer receives nearly £400,000 after being hit by ball
• LLP had no power to expel one of its partners
• Motorists still wasting money on unnecessary insurance
• Cohabitation
• Cohabiting couples should consider legal agreements
• Cohabiting couple end their 20-year legal dispute over home
• Baroness Deech calls for pre-nuptial agreements to be legally binding
• How cohabiting couples can get ‘marriage-like’ legal protection
• Court rejects woman’s claim to a share of her former partner’s home
• Most people favour inheritance rights for cohabitants
• Cohabiting couples could be granted improved inheritance rights
• Man used ‘undue influence’ to gain interest in partner’s property
• Commercial
• Company director found guilty of wrongful trading
• Builders merchants were partners despite lack of written agreement
• More firms taking legal action to recover debts
• Partners could be personally liable for business debts
• Could you make a profit pursuing late payers?
• Credit crunch affects SME's
• Would you like to set up your own business?
• Father fails to prove he was in partnership with his son
• SMEs waiting even longer for invoices to be settled
• More Companies Act measures come into effect
• Directors disqualified after failing to keep company records
• Accountant must pay for enticing away former clients
• Contracts must consider all eventualities
• Commercial Property
• To buy or lease as credit crunch takes hold?
• Failure to follow lease provisions costs landlord £263,117
• Directors of doomed development project guilty of wrongful trading
• Landlords getting tougher over break clauses
• Technical error prevents business tenant from terminating lease
• Breaking point - when are vacant premises really vacant?
• Commercial tenant failed to exercise break clause correctly
• A lease cannot be ignored just because it is badly drafted
• Conveyancing
• Moves to improve the process of buying and selling homes
• Many parents give children up to £10,000 to help buy a home
• Expanding HIPs
• HIPs apply to shared ownership deals
• More guidance on Home Information Packs
• Make sure you don’t pay too much for your Home Information Pack
• HIPs: 3 million people need it
• Credit crunch leads to more equity transfers
• HIPs now needed as soon as a property is put on the market
• Could friends provide the key to buying a new home?
• Division of Property
• Pre-nup agreements come under Supreme Court spotlight
• Supreme Court ruling clarifies status of pre-nup agreements
• Woman ‘entitled to a house’ from her partner’s estate
• Divorce and Separation
• Husband didn’t reveal affair to wife when remortgaging home
• Husband loses appeal to get more than £5m in divorce settlement
• When divorcing couples try to ‘hide’ property
• Why it pays to be reasonable when a relationship breaks down
• Woman fails to get a share of former husband’s business windfall
• Secretly obtained documents can not be used in divorce cases
• Divorcing couples must consider mediation before court action
• Grandmother wins legal battle over the care of her grandson
• Employer
• Equal rights for agency workers
• Employment
• New rights for Britain's 6 million carers
• Britain retains the right to opt out from 48-hour maximum working week
• Television presenter wins ageism case against BBC
• Women to receive improved maternity entitlement
• Equality Bill outlines new approach to tackling discrimination
• Equal rights for Temps
• Main provisions of Equality Act come into effect
• Much criticised dispute resolution procedures are repealed
• Council workers win age discrimination appeal
• Know you rights if redundancy threatens
• Employment Law
• BA employee loses discrimination claim over wearing of a cross
• How should employers deal with staff stranded by volcano crisis?
• When TUPE does not apply
• Gay bar worker wins discrimination claim
• Additional paternity leave rights for fathers comes into effect
• Woman left an ‘emotional wreck’ by bullies awarded £141,990
• Employers fear increase in age related tribunal claims
• Woman awarded compensation for bad employment reference
• Employer’s Charter aims to dispel myths about employment law
• Tribunal awards intern more than £1,000 back pay
• Company’s mistake turns redundancies into unfair dismissals
• Changes to regulations covering agency workers take effect
• Claims to employment tribunals reach records levels
• Woman awarded nearly £290,000 in sexual harassment case
• Most workers not aware of employment and redundancy rights
• Equality Act
• Government confirms October start date for Equality Act
• Family
• Husband wins appeal against ‘excessive’ divorce settlement
• Family courts get new powers to settle contact disputes
• Bias against fathers, exaggerated
• Mother loses appeal to retain contact with daughter
• Divorce for over 60's rising
• Father granted residency of his children during school term time
• Legal rights for cohabiting couples put on hold
• New Bill intended to improve protection for cohabiting couples
• Family lawyers oppose ‘draconian’ measures against absent parents
• Green paper offers new hope to ‘heroic’ grandparents
• Parents should be careful when helping their children buy a home
• A very public divorce settlement
• Family Law
• Surge in number of parents abducting their children
• Father wins appeal in child abduction case
• Till turning 60 do us part – divorce in later life
• Inheritance
• Man loses claim to inherit farm
• Landlord and Tenant
• Tenancy deposit protection ‘still misunderstood by landlords’
• Landlord must pay damages to tenant for wrongful eviction
• Landlords advised to protect deposits on ‘default’ ASTs
• Landlords win appeals over tenancy deposit protection
• Landlords will need written agreements for all tenancies
• Landlord awarded £72,000 compensation for inaccurate valuation
• Recession sparks rise in landlord and tenant disputes
• More landlords taking action against tenants in arrears
• Personal Injury
• Boy bitten by dog awarded compensation
• Property
• Shedding light on how the Housing Act views a window
• Buy to let sentiment improves as landlords acquire more properties
• House owner ‘not entitled’ to tear down fence that encroached on her land
• Avoid the legal pitfalls if you rent out your home
• Buyers of New Builds need protection
• Residential Conveyancing
• Make sure you know the boundaries when buying property
• Budget provides a boost for first time buyers
• Housing market experts want to reform home buying process
• Ignorance can prove expensive when selling property
• New rules aim to prevent risky mortgage lending
• Stamp duty holiday for first time buyers coming to an end
• Wills, Trusts & Probate
• Man’s death bed will upheld despite challenge by children
• Wills, Trusts and Probate
• Will writing and estate administration ‘open to abuse’
• Preparing for Old Age with an LPA
• New tax regime could ‘impact on trusts and wills’
• Consequences of poor will writing
• Lasting Powers of Attorney, delays to end
• Protect your future with Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Should unregulated people be allowed to draw up your will?
• Consider creating a Lasting Power of Attorney
• How disputes can arise when there is no written will
• Children win the right to inherit estate from their ‘delusional’ mother
• Wife inherits husband’s estate despite family’s challenge to his will
• Many Britons are relying on inheritance to fund their retirement
• Increase in care home fees could affect people’s wills
• Changes to inheritance thresholds highlight need to make a will
• Make a will or bring your existing will up to date
• Add a little Will Power to your New Year resolutions list
• Carer inherits MS sufferer’s estate despite challenge from his son
• Now it’s cheaper and easier to register Lasting Powers of Attorney
• What can you do if you are left out of a will?
• Man successfully challenges his uncle’s ‘second will’
• Think twice before giving your house to your children
• Widow granted share of house despite challenge by stepson
• Lasting Powers of Attorney becoming more important than ever


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