The Financial Ombudsman Service has extended its scope and can now require financial services businesses to pay compensation of up to £350,000.

Practical completion is one of those terms with which everyone is familiar – but for which there is no clear legal definition.

The 2014 Oxford Farming Conference predicted that the next decade would see an increase in share farming as the shape of the industry changed, with “a divergence between those owning land and those farming (operating) it”.

On 5 July 2017, the Supreme Court handed down its judgement in the case of RFC 2012 Plc (in liquidation) (formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland often referred to as ‘the Rangers big tax case’.

In English law, to make a valid will, a testator must have their signature to it witnessed by two adult independent witnesses. The current social distancing measures together with self-isolation to protect the particularly elderly and vulnerable, therefore present a challenge for private client practitioners: how do we ensure that wills are valid when we can’t stand within 2 metres of one another?

Work on site has resumed. But many Directors, Executives, Managers and Head Office based personnel remain working at home.

Since the announcement that Universities in England and Wales could increase their tuition fees by 200% from £3000 to £9000, there has been a significant increase in complaints to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA).

A caveat is a notice to request someone to suspend a specific action. In estate administration, it is used to prevent a grant of representation (grant of probate or a grant of letters of administration - depending on whether there or not there is a will) being obtained in a deceased person’s estate.

Optimus Build Ltd v Southall & Anor, reported last month, was an all-too-familiar case of a falling out between home-owner and their building contractor and the termination of their building contract.

This addition of the round up includes, nature recovery schemes may put APR at risk, the future of regulations in the UK and the setting of environmental targets delayed.