Conveyancing liability: Solicitor ordered to pay £1.8 million in damages for failing to report on a planning search.

The Government has announced extra protection for businesses by placing a moratorium on commercial landlords’ sanctions for at least three months so that those who cannot pay their rent because of cashflow difficulties related to the coronavirus will be protected from eviction.

The new year started positively for three members of the agriculture team.

In August 2016 Colin Seviour died leaving his estate to his wife, Maria Seviour. His estate was valued at approximately £268,000. Maria suffered with motor neurone disease.

On 20 May 2020 the Government published the eagerly awaited Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill which includes measures that have been developed over a two-year consultation period and others which are going to be introduced specifically to cater for the current pandemic.

Donna Ockenden’s current review into Nottingham University NHS Trust’s maternity units has revealed that her team is looking at the files of approximately 1800 families who are thought to have been affected by poor treatment at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre's and Nottingham City Hospital's maternity units. The announcement that the Trust is now also the subject of a police investigation will have compounded the agony for the families concerned.

The Government has announced pay rises in the public sector – and that they will be partly funded by ‘significant’ increases in UK visa and immigration health surcharge fees for foreign migrants who come to the UK to live, study and work.

A will is an important document and a crucial way of protecting family members and loved ones. It is a legally binding document which states who should receive your estate (such as your assets, property, investments, cash, etc) after you die.

To many minds, the annexing of a pharmacy onto a doctors’ surgery seems a sensible proposition given that, in many respect they are complementary services: one’s doctor prescribes one a certain type of medicine via a prescription and one takes this to the pharmacy and obtains the medicine. One cannot argue against why this might be viewed as logical.

Over the last 4 ½ years, thousands of newspaper columns have speculated on the eventual outcome of the UK’s decision to leave the EU. Now the moment has almost arrived, it is worth reviewing what this will mean for employment law, probably the most heavily EU-influenced area of law in UK legislation.