Inappropriate fees The CMA has highlighted several areas where the common practice is to continue charging the full care fees for a month or more after a resident has died. It’s often at this point that families will try to deal with matters themselves. In the cases where a solicitor is involved with the probate, …
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The Lawyer Litigation Tracker 2017 reveals a ground-breaking year for the English courts, with landmark judgments reached in a number of areas of law that have set precedents and reformulated long-standing legal principles. However, it was also a year in which fewer cases went all the way to judgment. Some 2,412 judgments were tracked by …
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Litigation regarding the 24th Street widening project is moving forward after attempts to settle proved unsuccessful. Months of mandatory negotiations between the City of Bakersfield and the Citizens Against the 24th Street Widening Project ended in February after the attorneys representing the group declined the city’s offer to waive payment of $20,000 in court-awarded costs …
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Home > News The following Bills which may be of interest to family lawyers are currently proceeding through Parliament. The only government Bill is the Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill. However, the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill, though a Private Members’ Bill, has government support. Child Maintenance (Assessment of Parents’ …
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A 46-year-old man who accused that his wife did not treat him and his family well, filed a divorce petition. (PTI) A 46-year-old man who accused that his wife did not treat him and his family well, filed a divorce petition. However, his petition was turned down by Bombay High Court on Friday upholding the …
A bill legalizing divorce in the Philippines has been approved at the committee level in the House of Representatives and is set to be heard at a plenary level. It is the first time since 2005 that a bill pushing for divorce has come this close to being passed into legislation. Emmi de Jesus, a …
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Russian Oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov, 61, is at the centre of Britain’s biggest divorce A Russian oligarch ordered to hand his wife £453million in Britain’s biggest divorce today claimed he had received ‘no justice’ after his lawyer was forced to disclose full details of his multi-billion pound fortune. Gas and oil tycoon Farkhad Akhmedov, 61, has shown …
Recently, Thomson Reuters’ Canadian Lawyer magazine brought together a cross-section of leading women in litigation, from private practice and in-house, to talk about how they came into the profession they love, the challenges and rewards they’ve faced, and the changes they have observed as they have risen to the positions they hold today. They discussed …
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Divorce lawyers are now grappling with a whole new class of assets, writes Mark Phillips Divorce lawyers in the UK are familiar with identifying, valuing and advising on the redistribution of many disparate types of asset: cash, bank accounts, investments, property, businesses, shareholdings, cars, yachts, or even horses – and whether held in this jurisdiction …
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