So, you’ve paid your deposit, collected the keys and moved into your lovely new home. What to do first? Install that white picket fence you’ve always wanted? Maybe buy some chickens to give you some eggs for your Sunday morning soldiers? Or fit a few security cameras around your house to keep an eye on […]

You may have heard of the recent case in the news where a judge ruled that Paul Briggs, who suffered a severe brain injury from a motorcycle crash in 2013, should be allowed to die. The case was prompted by his wife, Lindsay, who argued that his ‘minimally conscious state’, where he is being kept […]

Music has been big business for a long time. The rewards for artists and their record companies, as everyone knows, can be immense. Not surprisingly, this means that the rights which make money from the music at the heart of it all are jealously guarded. The most recent example to reach the news has been […]

We have written before about the current problematic relationship between possession claims and a local authority’s duty to rehouse the tenant under threat of eviction. To summarise, local councils have a duty to re-house those considered “involuntarily homeless”, but what constitutes “involuntary” can vary widely from region to region. Some authorities will set the trigger […]

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes” Benjamin Franklin. What if this were no longer true in the case of death? A landmark case was recently won by a 14 year old girl (JS) suffering from cancer in the last few days before she died. JS and her […]

Misrepresentation is a complex area of law, but in its simplest form it relates to one party inducing another to enter into an agreement by making false claims. As a familiar example, if you buy a car from a garage that claims the vehicle has been fully checked over and is in perfect working order, […]

You’ve just bought a house with the view you always wanted and every day starts with the beautiful sweeping vista. Now fast forward a few years and your neighbour decides to plant a few trees. Not any species of tree however, but fast growing, potentially enormous Leylandii that eclipse the once splendid view so dear […]

Have you managed by some miracle to avoid the furore which surrounds the Bake Off, or The Great British Bake Off as it is properly entitled? News of its sale to Channel 4 has reached unprecedented levels of media coverage this week. An eye watering £75m was paid for a three-year deal for the show. […]

As any parent will know, booking a holiday outside term time can be an expensive business, whether or not you plan to travel abroad. A recent judgment has put the issue in the spotlight once again. In what could be a landmark case with wide-ranging impact, the High Court has upheld an earlier decision that […]

Richmond RFC will make a welcome return to the Championship following their catastrophic demise in 1999 when millionaire backer Ashley Levett pulled his cash and the club went into administration and was sent crashing to the ninth tier of English rugby. Richmond RFC has come out publicly to state that next season no ‘professional players’ […]

In an age when sports broadcasting deals involve millions if not billions of pounds, it is not surprising that broadcasters and governing bodies will take all the steps they can to stop anything that they see as infringing their intellectual property rights. Sky and the ECB (the governing body for cricket in England and Wales) […]

What better way to grab people’s attention than to take a ride on the back of the Olympic train? Remember the excitement surrounding the London Olympics. I attended some of the events myself and the buzz around London was staggering. Shops were full of merchandise and people flocked to get their hands on the memorabilia. […]