5 tips for an amicable divorce
Senior family lawyer Natalie Lester shares her advice for couples going through a divorce and how you can keep relations amicable: 1) Make sure divorce is the right decision When...
Shareholders’ agreements
Running a private limited company with people you trust can be great and it is hard to imagine a day where things might go wrong. However, once a conflict does...
Children and divorce: Co-parenting or parallel parenting?
Most people will not consider how they would raise their children following a divorce and separation until they find themselves facing the reality of doing just that. Terms such as...
Eleanor Parkes
Eleanor is a lawyer in our employment team, helping both employers and employees navigate this complex and fast moving area of employment law. Expertise She advises a wide range of...
The commercial rent arrears arbitration scheme: Helping commercial landlords and tenants resolve rent debts resulting from the pandemic
During the pandemic, more than £7bn worth of rent of arrears were accrued. A new bill is soon to be introduced that will help commercial landlords and tenants resolve rent...
How do I deal with disputed invoices?
Late payment of invoices is often considered part and parcel of running a business but are you finding that your invoices are being delayed due to a dispute being raised?...
World Book Day 2022: The best books to help children understand divorce
3 March 2022 marks this year’s World Book Day – a time to recognise and celebrate the stories and tales which we love. Reading can be an opportunity for children...
Doctrine of proprietary estoppel – is it always a shield or can it be used as a sword?
What is proprietary estoppel? The concept of proprietary estoppel is to provide a person (person A) with rights in land that they were led to believe they had by another...
Employment law advice for the UK arm of a major international supplier
We regularly work with the UK arm of a major international company that supplies products to both wholesale and retail, across the UK. Over the past 12 months we provided...
Corporate insolvency winding up – balancing supporting and opposing unsecured creditors
On a creditors winding up petition, the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA) states that a “court may dismiss it or adjourn the hearing conditionally or unconditionally or make an interim order...
Gosport Property Limited, a property developer purchasing a High Street unit to renovate and sell
We helped the property investor and developer, Gosport Property Limited, with the purchase of a former McDonald’s unit on Gosport High Street. We provided advice on all the legal aspects...
Advising the lender in their £3.6 million loan to a care home operator
We helped the lender (a well-known bank) with a £3.6 million secured term loan to a care home operator. The loan allowed the operator to acquire the entire issued share...
Timothy O’Donoghue
Timothy is a qualified property lawyer and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives working in our residential conveyancing team. Timothy has over five years’ experience dealing with residential...
How do I challenge what should have been left to me in a Will when it’s no longer there?
Sometimes the value of an estate is low or even zero meaning beneficiaries named in the last valid Will receive nothing. This can happen after suspicious lifetime transactions, such as...
The latest changes to trust registration – what you need to know
HMRC now require most trusts to be registered. But what does this mean and who does it affect? The short answer is that trustees are under a legal obligation to...
Commercial property advice to an award-winning travel company
HF Holidays is an award-winning travel and hotel company that owns and leases 17 holiday resorts throughout the UK. We helped the business to restructure itself in the wake of...
St Albans District Council redeveloping the site of a former social club
Our local authority client, St Albans District Council, has recently redeveloped the site of an old social club to form seven residential freehold properties. We have been helping them to...
Advising a university professor in an unfair dismissal and age discrimination claim
Our client, Professor John Pitcher, was a long‐standing employee of Saint John the Baptist College and the University of Oxford. His employment was terminated due to forced retirement when he...
Top tips to pandemic-proof your business for the next stage of Covid-19
It’s been almost six months since lockdown restrictions were lifted. But with Covid variants bringing new challenges, the long-term impact of the pandemic is as uncertain as ever. For business...
Helping a Dutch company acquire an equity stake in a private company that owns land in Kent
Our client is a Dutch company which offers self-build and shell home products and services. We helped them to acquire a 50% equity stake in a private limited company which...