There are certain ingredients to any successful claim against a professional. This note sets them out in broad terms and should allow you to make a basic assessment of what to do next if you think your professional adviser has let you down.

The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (“LTA”) is not a new piece of legislation. It grants commercial tenants statutory rights, giving them the right to renew their lease on substantially the same terms if they remain in occupation at the end of the term.

As lenders rely more and more on their powers to appoint an LPA Receiver, a recent case has clarified the Receiver’s obligations, both to the lender and its borrower.

A patent is a published document which describes an invention and provides the inventor with a monopoly right to exploit that invention for a specified period.

The COVID-19 outbreak has already had a significant impact on the performance of business to business contracts across the country.

This article sets out an example of the types of schemes that we are seeing, how we expect HMRC will treat these schemes, the potential outcomes of such schemes and what we can do to help.

Government plans to introduce a new form of shared ownership lease from April 2021 will apply to all schemes funded by the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme. The intention is that it will be more consumer friendly, easier to access and allow shared owners to increase the stake in their home in a more manageable and affordable way.

A recent Supreme Court ruling (R (Haworth) v HMRC) has highlighted the difficult line trodden by taxpayers who decide to challenge HMRC’s opinion that they are not entitled to the tax advantage conferred by entering into a particular tax arrangement.

Having only rarely troubled insolvency practitioners, the farming sector now finds itself in an unusually delicate situation as industry observers predict a run of farm insolvencies with incomes likely to fall as BPS payments are replaced with environmental subsidies.

Rebecca Mushing tells us about how she came to fall in love with the industry, the ways in which women are working together to make the sector less male-dominated, and what advice she would give to young women considering a career in planning.