Solicitors for Successful Businesses

In the case of “Greening v Castlenau Mansions Limited” the Upper Tribunal had to decide whether the landlord could recover its legal costs through the service charges. Read the rest of this entry »

Commonsense says that it shouldn’t be possible to have a binding contract to buy a house or other land by email, but this may be possible in law. The legal requirements for a binding contract to buy/sell land are a written document incorporating all the terms agreed by the parties, and signed by all the parties – and Judges have already decided that typing your name on a string of emails can in law be treated as signing to this same extent as having signed a hard copy of the document.   Read the rest of this entry »

The law has recently changed in respect of Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules from 1 October 2011.

The changes overrule the decision of Carver v BAA plc [2008], which ruled that because the Claimant had only just beaten a Part 36 offer, he had failed to obtain a judgment which was “more advantageous” within the meaning of CPR 36.14, and the Defendant was awarded its costs from the date the offer expired.   Read the rest of this entry »

A Lasting Power of Attorney is a legal document that allows you to appoint another person to make decisions about your welfare, money or property.   The Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) can be used at any time when and if you are unable to make your own decisions, or if you simply decide that you no longer wish to make decisions for yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

Who do you know that feels they are paying too much service charge on their flat and is doing nothing about it ?  I came across a client the other day who had received service charge accounts showing a yearly electricity charge for a block with ten light bulbs of £360.00 – and that was just the start of the overcharging! Read the rest of this entry »

In the current economic climate it may be tempting for you to fabricate an accident in order to be able to bring a claim for personal injury compensation or perhaps damage an expensive item of furniture or accidently on purpose lose your diamond necklace!

It will soon be possible for Claimant Solicitors to access the same records about a person’s claims history that the insurance industry have access to.   Read the rest of this entry »

You will no doubt be aware from various articles in the newspapers and news items on your TV that the government are intending to implement a number of different reforms affecting the funding of legal work.   Read the rest of this entry »