A recent case that went to the Court of Appeal has helped to clarify the situation relating to the longevity of possession orders particularly when mortgagors fall into arrears more than once.

If landowners want to change the use of their property from agricultural to commercial or residential then it is important to ensure that they have the correct easements in place to support that change of use.

Debentures, legal charges, directors’ personal guarantees and can be used to give funders very extensive rights of security, so why are collateral warranties also required as part of a comprehensive security package for development financing?

Since 2010, successive Finance Acts have targeted EBTs used as a tax avoidance schemes, including introducing Accelerated Payment Notices (APN) and Follower Notices (FN) in 2014.

Time limits for bringing claims at Court are strict. The rules seem superficially clear, but they continue to confuse claimants with the result that potentially valuable claims are lost.

Caroline Benfield and Elizabeth Taylor from our insolvency team discuss the measures to assist business trade through Covid-19 pandemic

As you know, the purchase of a property is likely to be most important financial transaction you will enter into. The paperwork which we, as your solicitors, will undertake only relates to title issues.

2020 has been a year like no other and undoubtedly the major change in this area of law has been the amendment to the Wills Act 1837 which had been unchanged legislation for approaching 200 years.

The history of social housing finance makes interesting reading and we have been involved in its story since the early 1980s when we helped set up what is now one of the largest housing groups in the country.

One of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic is widespread economic volatility with the result that many people have watched their investments tumble in value over the past couple of months. These market swings will have particular resonance for executors dealing with the estates of the recently deceased.