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No Fault Divorce and How It Helps You

From 6th April 2022, the divorce process for all married couples who want to divorce has changed. Filing for a divorce under the new no fault divorce process means that the need for one spouse to cite unreasonable behaviour is no longer needed. The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act (2020), introduces the biggest shakeup in divorce law for more than half a century. It completely removes the need for separating couples to apportion blame for the breakdown of their marriage, helping them...

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Shareholder Dispute Solicitors

Our job is to find a solution to your shareholder dispute. We analyse the evidence, plan a strategy with you and then act on it. Shareholder disagreements and disputes are surprisingly common. Despite the best intentions, the interests of business partners and partner shareholders can diverge over time, leading to disputes and disagreements about money and control of companies. They can range from differences of opinion about strategy to situations where shareholders consider it is being mi...

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Silver Splitters – Financial Concerns When Divorcing After 60

There has recently been a flurry of books and articles discussing how to embrace life after 60. From the Financial Times, Life Begins At Sixty – the rise of the ‘young-old’ society to Extra Time – life lessons for an ageing world by Camilla Cavendish, society seems to have caught onto the r...

How Parents Can Best Help Their Children Through A Divorce

How Parents Can Best Help Their Children Through A Divorce Last month the UK government announced that divorce laws in England and Wales were to undergo their most radical transformation in half a century. To the relief of most family law Solicitors, the Judiciary, and family advocate and ...

How to surrender a commercial lease

A lease is surrendered when the tenant's interest is transferred back to the landlord and the parties accept that the lease has ended. There are formal and informal procedures to allow a lease to be surrendered, but this can be a very contentious area of law and it is generally not the case that ...

Procedure for change of use applications for premises in planning law

Change of use applications are required in certain circumstances regardless of whether there is a change of ownership for example if a building use is changing from retail to office premises or storage to retail use. Ensuring that you have expert advice right from the start of the application can...

Singaporean Consortium Acquires Crowne Plaza Hotel in London for £84 Million

A Singaporean consortium led by developer Heeton Holdings Ltd has bought over hotel investment holding company, LC London, which owns the Crowne Plaza London Kensington hotel. Joined with KSH Holdings Ltd and privately held construction firm Ho Lee Group Pte Ltd, Heeton acquired the hotel for £84...

12 Sainsbury’s Stores Sold to US Company for £429 Million

This week, British Land, one of the UK’s largest listed landlords, sold 12 Sainsbury’s superstores to a US company from its joint venture with the grocer, a net initial yield of 5.0 per cent. The £429 million sale is part of British Land’s wider plan to reduce its retail exposure and represents a...

Supreme Court rule on motives behind opposing lease renewal in landmark case

At the end of last year, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in S Franses Limited v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Limited, determining whether the landlord had the right to oppose the grant of a new tenancy to the tenant under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

Pilot scheme for tenants and landlords to improve building safety announced

A pilot scheme which will see eight landlords and their social residents team up to trial methods of communicating matters relating to building safety was announced by the government yesterday.

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