With tales of doom and gloom pervading the news for so long now, you'd be forgiven for thinking that there is nothing good going on in...
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (or Hague Adoption Convention) is a...
Last November, the Government proposed a new regime for fees for non-contentious probate matters which would have seen the flat fee of...
The proposed changes to the probate fees have been on hold since February this year. With the delay has come uncertainty for both...
According to Winston Churchill, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” That philosophy seems to be...
In anticipation of the G7 Summit in France, Oxfam produced a media briefing highlighting the ways in which the G7 are actively fueling...
Transmission Private, one of the world's leading family and private client communications advisers, has published, what it refers to as,...
Last week the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) published its second report on simplifying the Inheritance Tax regime. There has been a...
Most people are familiar with the rule that making a gift and surviving seven years is a means of avoiding inheritance tax on the asset...
In October 2016 John and Ann Scarle both died from hypothermia at their family home. Their bodies were not found straightaway and so the...
The adoption of children from other countries used to attract quite significant attention in the media. Celebrities like Angeline Jolie...
On 11 June 2019, the Solicitors Regulation Authority issued a warning about emails that have been sent from a "Lloyd Chance" in relation...