So, what happens when a person has neglected to update their Will and it therefore misses out on more favourable tax treatment? Is there anything which the beneficiaries or Executors can do about it?

Succession planning is an essential part of running a family farm business. Effectively planning for the future allows you to protect your assets, safeguard your business, ensure continuity and provide for your family. Succession planning in the farming industry is also vital to the sector's viability as a whole. In this post, we look at some of the key things you need to consider when succession planning for your farming estate.

One of the biggest and most controversial changes to the law of intellectual property disputes concerns the power of UK courts to depart from EU case law.

An article in the Law Society Gazette from 2 February 2021 looked at the posibilty of a total overhaul of the system of clinical negligence compensation within the NHS by ministers.

Separation is never easy, but if you and your former partner own property together, the situation can be even more complicated.

Choosing the beneficiaries in your Will, or the amounts that each beneficiary receives, can sometimes be a daunting task. Especially when you consider that you are likely to be making your Will many years before you pass away and you cannot always tell how much your family will grow and change over the coming years.

If progress is not being made, or if mediation breaks down or perhaps mediation was not deemed suitable for the parties at the initial intake session, then the parties should speak to their solicitors about the other options available to them.

Last year, a new private members’ bill was introduced to Parliament, calling for there to be a ban on Inheritance Tax being paid by siblings who live together.

We see many situations where the family home is owned by only one individual in a relationship. Whilst not anticipated, separation causes significant problems for the individual who has lived in the family home but has no formal legal ownership of it.

The Welsh Government finalised their policy and strategy for flood and coastal erosion risk management on 5th November 2020, replacing the previous 2011 strategy.

Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 the COP may direct that an LPA should not be registered if one of the grounds for objecting to registration applies.

The value of our online lives is becoming immeasurable, yet not many people are recording or protecting their digital assets just like their physical ones.