What Is A Letter Of Claim And How To React When You Get One? The Courts in England and Wales have a set procedure which needs to be followed before the actual court case can begin. This protocol outlines that before a claim is filed against the defendant, a Letter Of Claim should be sent …
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Settling Partnership Disputes When two or more than two people decide to work together and support each other in their collective business ambitions, then their relation can be termed a partnership. Fortunately, old style partnerships are on the demise and the new ones come with proper legal protection. There are two types of partnerships, traditional …
Making Sense of Section 25 Notice (Landlord and Tenants Act 1954) The Parliament of UK passed and made the Landlord and Tenants Act part of the law in 1954. The purpose behind the implementation of the Act was to make sure that the state is able to grant and govern the obligations and rights that …
As part of the drive towards digitalisation of the Family Court, a new Family Procedure Rules Practice Direction has been published that sets out the pilot scheme for the use of virtual judges for contested divorce cases. The scheme is being piloted in Bristol and will run for 1 year. Straightforward, uncontested divorce cases will …
Solicitors have expressed disbelief at the government’s decision to sit on research about unrepresented defendants in Crown courts. Labour peer Lord Beecham (Jeremy Beecham) asked the Ministry of Justice when it intends to publish a report on issues faced by courts and practitioners as a result of cases in which defendants are unrepresented. However, a …
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Nigel Shepherd said it is time to ‘end the blame game’ and said the government must not let Brexit get in the way of it acting quickly to ensure there are no more cases like Owens. Mr Shepherd said: ‘In the face of this overwhelming support for a change in law to allow for no fault …
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A week in family law Following swiftly on from the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the Owens case, interim findings from research exploring how the current divorce law works in practice have been published. Key findings of the research include that the majority of divorces are based on ‘fault’, i.e. blaming one spouse for the …
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Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are ‘close’ to reaching a formal custodial agreement over their young son, more than two years after finalising their divorce. TMZ claim Patton, 41, has granted her ex-husband more time with six-year old Julian, the former couple’s only child, in a bid to ease the ’emotional strain’ their protracted legal …
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Rocker Phil Collins is expected to be called to testify in an upcoming trial in Miami where his ex-wife, with whom he patched things up and currently lives, will be trying to save her fortune from her latest soon-to-be ex-husband. The five-day trial scheduled to start April 24 is a part of ex-wife Orianne Mejjati’s …
The key findings of this investigation are: It is taking the Department longer than expected to close 1993 and 2003 scheme cases. By September 2016 the Department had closed 33% of active cases – those with continuing payments, against an expectation of 50%. The number of cases where the Department needs to finalise arrears before closure …