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On 24 September 2020, the Government announced the Job Support Scheme, which will follow on from the expiration of the Job Retention Scheme. The Job Support Scheme is designed to...

On 28 September 2020 the Statutory Instrument making temporary amendments to the Wills Act 1837 is due to come into force. The catalyst for the amendment has of course been...

Trusts are a way of protecting or sheltering assets for others. They can take various forms and often get a bad press as vehicles for the super-rich, but in fact...

Many couples do not divorce for some considerable time following their separation. A common reason for this is that they want to avoid attributing blame in the divorce paperwork. In...

We are all still coming to terms with the way our world has been turned upside down this year by the coronavirus. Adjusting to working from home, home-schooling and being...

Numerous professional healthcare businesses, such as care home operators, are structured as limited companies. In many circumstances, such companies have a number of shareholders, and regulating their relationship can be...

Most people these days are aware of Lasting powers of attorney (LPAs), either having written one for themselves or having dealt with their parents’.  They fall into two categories ‘health...

The principle of reflective loss was established in the case of Prudential Assurance Co Limited v Newman Industries Limited (No. 2) [1982] Ch 204. The rule states that a shareholder...

Figures released by HMRC show that it had received 6,749 reports about fraudulent claims under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”). On 28 July HMRC published two new guidance documents...

We continue to monitor the case of Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson- Blake, otherwise known as “the Mencap case” following our series of recent articles on this complex dispute, which...