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Why now is a good time to write your Will As we have gone into lockdown and Christmas is fast approaching there has never been a better time to write your Will.  All Josiah Hincks

Momentary outbursts of anger can have lifelong consequences and victims should not delay in seeking legal advice. In one case, a man who suffered dreadful injuries when he was punched by a work colleague received

No one should be allowed to profit from their own wrongdoing and that is why judges usually dismiss compensation claims that are tainted by illegality. In the context of a professional negligence claim, however, the

Corporate insolvency proceedings may appear dry as dust to the uninitiated but they can have major practical effects in the real world, with jobs and reputations frequently on the line. That was sadly so in

Discerning where responsibility lies for workplace accidents can be a highly complex matter, but that in no way deters personal injury lawyers from fighting the good fight on behalf of injured clients. In one case,

The government has extended the UK furlough scheme until the end of March 2021. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the extension in Parliament, saying it was intended to ‘give people and businesses the certainty they need

Contact arrangements between children in care and their parents often raise vexed issues, but all the more so during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a case concerning a mother who was denied skin-to-skin contact with her

Those who preside over workplace disciplinary proceedings are performing a quasi-judicial role and no judge would find an employee guilty of misconduct on the basis of a mere possibility. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) made

Many businesspeople lead peripatetic lives of constant international travel and the crucial question of whether they are settled in the UK for tax purposes can be very difficult to answer. A First-tier Tribunal (FTT) ruling,

Wherever in the world maritime collisions occur, Admiralty judges in London have an unrivalled expertise in discerning where responsibility for them lies. The point was made by a case concerning a series of domino-like collisions