What are Dilapidations? Dilapidations are often defined as being “items in need of repair to comply with a tenant’s obligations both to repair the property and to return the property to the landlord in accordance with the lease”. Most commercial leases will describe this as a requirement to keep the property in good repair and […]

Following a vote in the House of Lords, a law has now been passed that will allow people to alter copyrighted work for “caricature, parody and pastiche”.  The new law, called the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Quotation and Parody) Regulations 2014, will come into force on 1 October 2014. This change in the law […]

FIFA have handed Suarez the longest ban in World Cup history which will see Suarez barred from all ‘football related activity’ for a period of four months. The ban is the biggest in World Cup history, beating the eight games given to Italy’s Mauro Tassotti for elbowing Spain’s Luis Enrique in 1994. Suarez is not […]

Death and mental incapacity are two subjects that everyone would probably rather not think about. However, addressing these subjects early on and including them as part of succession planning for a park business will save significant time, money and stress in the long run. In this blog I cover the very important issue of estate […]

Wednesday evening saw team Blacks (not the Silver Fern lot from the Southern Hemisphere) take part in the annual Wooden Spoon mixed touch rugby tournament at Moortown RFC. The evening was put on by the Charity Wooden Spoon to help raise money for mentally, physically disadvantaged children. With the real England squad heading into a […]

From 2016 a care cost limit is being introduced. If £72,000 is spent on care then after that the Local Authority will meet a person`s care. This sounds promising but the Institute of Actuaries have found that very few people (8% of men and 15% of women aged 85) will reach this. When looking at […]

In the recent case of Marks & Spencer Plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd [2014], the Court of Appeal has just made a ruling that may leave commercial tenants feeling short-changed. The claim arose following the successful exercise by M&S of the break options in leases of an office block in […]

For a long time now, the EU has had its eye on creating what’s known as a ‘right to be forgotten’. Some draft legislation proposed the idea in January 2012 and people have been arguing and lobbying about it ever since. The concept has always been a bit vague but in broad terms the plan […]

Another set of shocking statistics have been published this week by the Dying Matters Coalition which will no doubt make eye-watering reading for Wills and Probate Solicitors up and down the country. The results reveal that only a third of those asked had made a Will, which makes disappointing reading when you consider that having a […]

Part 3 of our blog looks in more detail at the new procedure for complaints about defamatory material on websites: Section 5 of the Defamation Act 2013, was heralded as a great new way of dealing with the problem of anonymous or pseudonymous posts online. It provides a procedure which, if followed by the operator […]

The Law Society has recently urged people to prepare a digital legacy with their will as part of their estate planning. A digital legacy covers all of those intangible and invisible assets which we own and could not live without. The Law Society is conscious that digital assets are just as significant in terms of […]

Flooding is a growing risk for British properties. According to Environment Agency statistics, 5.5 million homes (that’s one in six) are at risk of flooding from all types of flood in England and Wales. Climate change projections indicate that rising sea levels and increasing severe and frequent rainstorms will increase those risks. It is not always […]