Roocroft v Ball [2016] EWCA Civ 1009 The Personal Representatives of a millionaire businesswoman, Carole Ainscow, have been forced back to the family courts to renegotiate a consent order. Helen Roocroft and Carole Ainscow where together for 18 years, entering into a civil partnership in 1999
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Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) are the only way of ensuring major life decisions are carried out by your trusted friends or family in the event that you become mentally or physically incapacitated. Encouragingly the number of LPA registrations is steadily increasing however, recent
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Opening arguments on a somewhat controversial case begin today at the Supreme Court no, not Brexit but the case of Illott (Respondent) v The Blue Cross and others (Appellants) Whether or not a Will makes reasonable provision for a beneficiary and the grounds upon which a claim can be
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Davies v Davies (2016) A farmer’s daughter who sued her parent’s for a share of the family farm has had her financial award reduced by the Court of Appeal in a recent proprietary estoppel case. The daughter, Eirian Davies, spent 25 years working on her parents’ dairy farm in
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