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- Children expect to receive an average of £78,000 inheritance on the demise of their parents but in reality 40% won’t receive a penny.
- Can your chances of divorce be predicted?
- Employment tribunal fees
- Why discipline matters
- Employee Shareholder Status is being introduced after all
- Mis-Selling of Interest Rate Hedging Products
- Constructive Unfair Dismissal
- Will obesity cost you money?
- Consultation closes on reform of Tupe
- Do brunettes make better wives?
- The True Cost of Care
- Family Team Newsletter - March 2013
- Are you ready for your new pension obligations?
- Justifying age discrimination
- Is Leeds the Divorce Capital of Yorkshire?
- What is Arbitration?
- Would you lie about your assets on divorce? Beware those that do....
- Could retiring increase your chances of divorce?
- Lockwood -v- DWP
- Agency – important questions yet to be fully answered
- Valentine's Day - is romance dead?
- Private client lawyers join Symponia network of care fee advisers
- Changes in Litigation Funding – ATE Insurance Premiums no longer recoverable after 1 April 2013 – the time to act is now
- Expert Evidence – can a party faced with an unfavourable single joint expert’s report rely on alternative expert evidence?
- Incentivise Your Employees: The Increased Appeal of EMI Options
- A close shave - would facial hair cause your relationship to end?
- The privileged life of a lawyer
- If Carlsberg made Private Client teams........
- The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill
- Interest Rate Hedging Products – are you ‘sophisticated’?
- FSA announces in Pilot Findings that banks failed to comply with regulatory requirements in over 90% of sales of interest rate swaps
- Banks react to the FSA Pilot findings by increasing provision for compensation payouts for mis-sold interest rate hedging products
- In reality are there really any consequences for failing to provide full and frank financial disclosure during proceedings for a financial order?
- Your political views in the workplace
- Top family judge speaks out….
- Holiday Homes - a noose around people's necks?
- How is transformation embodied in procurement contracts?
- Silent and Abandoned Calls
- is this week the most adulterous week of the year?
- Money worries lead to more relationship breakdowns
- Celebrities… does the fairytale ending follow the fairytale wedding or do they simply expect too much from marriage?
- Reselling used software licences – new ruling from the European Court
- Tis the season...
- Meet the Parents? No thanks....
- Delivering the ‘golden days’
- Beware divorce-inducing gifts
- Inspiring the Next Generation
- Child maintenance – a serious business
- Shared Parenting Presumption – clarification or confusion?
- Experts warn of damage if bullying is not dealt with
- Equality: an inexact science
- Back to School
- Married Couples will be a minority in little more than a generation
- Employee Ownership: Arguments For
- Radio Gaga
- Stress and relationship breakdown
- Are employers obliged to pay people on sick leave?
- Co-Op Fixed fees, hit the headlines last month
- Balancing equality in the workplace
- The Colour Purple – Cadbury’s sweet success
- Equal sharing of housework leads to increased chances of divorce?
- Cohabitation Research
- Family Dispute Resolution
- Reminder: Continuing Care Assessment deadline 30 September 2012
- Clarion creating a piece of legal history?
- Wedding Jitters....
- Can I set up a business while still employed?
- How far does employer liability reach?
- Extending retail opening hours during the Olympics and beyond – will staff agree to it?
- Who will qualify as a Vulnerable Beneficiary?
- The changing UK energy sector
- Civil partnerships – has the reality surpassed the expectation?
- Falling employment tribunal claims
- Vernon v London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
- Even when there is a Will there may be another way
- Mr Justice Ryder's sixth update - Family Modernisation Programme
- 7 year itch - more like the 40 year itch
- FSA Update: Mis-selling of Interest Rate Hedging Products
- Family Justice Review - an update
- Will the reality of criminalising forced marriage have the positive effect the government intended?
- New job for me, new office for Clarion
- Wealth Protection Solutions
- Going all the way - Endeavours clauses explained
- Agile Software Development – a better way to develop software?
- Life and Death Decisions
- Grocery Code Adjudicator
- American research shows.... almost 50% of marriages end in divorce.
- Jackson Reform Insolvency Litigation exempt in the Short term
- Cookies New rules being enforced from May 2012
- Repeal of compulsory retirement age
- Ready or not? London Olympics 2012
- Avoiding the pitfalls of social media in business
- What makes a business entrepreneurial?
- Keying into the bill of costs
- A step forwards or backwards for Pre-Nups?
- MVL’s To Become More Attractive Than a Simple Dissolution?
- Limiting the Costs of Divorce
- The Family Justice Review – A Quick Update
- Is Change on the Way?
- Gender pay differential
- Warning to Proposed Administrators: Give As Much Notice As You Can To Avoid an Invalid Out Of Court Appointment
- Private agreements on children issues are the most satisfactory way forward…..
- Over The Finishing Line
- Settling In?
- Case Law Developments on Pre-nuptial Agreements
- Nine Down . . .One To Go!
- Jones v Kernott – A Landmark Ruling for Cohabitees?
- Supplier problems
- A Question of Prejudice (Discrimination)
- How Inherited Wealth is dealt with by the Courts
- Let’s Get Behind Leeds’ Bid to Host the Green Investment Bank
- Legal 500 ranking for family team
- Enduring Times!
- Death after Divorce
- The Demise of the Agency Worker
- A nation of animal lovers?
- Is this the end of the road for cheques?
- Recent Contentious Probate and Trust Cases
- Who cares for our elderly (and who will pay)?
- The Importance of Obtaining Specialist Advice When Making a Will
- Dilnot Commission – Fairer Care Funding
- What does “insolvent” mean anyway?
- Almost Half Way
- Decathlon Update
- Sport and Doping – The law needs to keep up with the racing
- The Resurrection of the SSAS
- Damages for phone-hacking (and other claims) – How much is enough?
- A view from my new office
- When parents divorce ….
- Potential for an increase in Inheritance disputes after recent ruling?
- Family Feuds
- Administration: An Education
- Taxation of Termination Payments
- One down . . . Nine to go!
- I Must Be Mad!
- The abolition of expert immunity in civil proceedings
- Court of Protection Costs
- Bribery Act coming into force on 1 July
- Internet Cookies
- Positive action under The Equality Act 2010
- Wasted costs Orders– a last resort?
- Return to Blogging
- Government freezes care home thresholds
- The bank and its solicitor – who picks up the bill if the deal turns bad?
- Sex Offenders Register - Is the indefinite period of a notification requirement a breach of your human rights?
- Further Calls for Cohabitation Protection
- Mediation is a must for Family Proceedings from 6 April 2011
- Advertising on websites soon to be regulated by the ASA
- The January Divorce rush....
- A Happy Divorce - Success for Collaborative law
- The Bribery Act 2010 - will 2011 be the end of corporate hospitality?
- Filling in the blanks – market practice as an aid to contractual interpretation
- Lies, Dammed Lies and Statistics
- Information Commissioner hands out first monetary penalties for breaches of Data Protection
- Article on Legal Professional Privilege
- “Endeavours” Clauses – Back in the Spotlight
- Update on the Incorporation of Terms and Conditions
- The Governments latest proposals on pensions
- Negotiating “Without Prejudice” – will what you say be admissible in court?
- Tis the season....
- No time for "a quickie"
- The End of the Seven Year Hitch?
- When can one claim be set off against another? Does it “vary according to the length of the Lord Chancellor’s foot” or is there a better test?
- ClarioNet: Continuing its Success
- Part 36 Uncertainty
- The Equality Act 2010 – Have you revised your recruitment practices?
- what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine.....
- A Typical Week
- Court favours Pre Nuptial Agreement
- A guide to intellectual property
- Retiring the default retirement regime
- Continued uncertainty about employee rights when an employer enters administration.
- Love and War
- Parents need to put children first, says senior family judge
- Mutual Wills Explained
- Are you prepared for the worst?
- Make the Mistress Pay?
- Was it a long hot summer ?
- Guarantor Beware - Creditor Disclosure Requirements Explained
- Administrator’s Proposals – Withholding Commercially Sensitive Information
- Inheritance Tax Exemption for members of the Armed Forces
- Transferable Nil Rate Band
- Battle of the forms – what happens when nobody wins?
- New insolvency figures - a cause for optimism?
- The golden rule of contract law - avoid the avoidable
- To marry or not to marry?….. that is the question
- Standard conditions of sale – are sub-sales prevented?
- Exposure to Professional Negligence claims when Will drafting - Will you stay out of the spotlight?
- Inheriting the Sins of the Father
- Essential documents
- What happens to jointly owned assets on death?
- Guide and DOLS
- Equality Act 2010 Update
- The Commission on Funding for Care and Support
- Sign of the times before the big day
- Funding A Divorce: What are the Options?
- Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill
- The Importance of Early Legal Advice
- Who to do business with – credit records
- Professional Negligence – A recent case on valuers / surveyors
- There’s no guarantee? Contractual certainty and the use of “subject to contract”
- Funding Insolvency Litigation
- Housebuilding - Positive Signs and Big Challenges Ahead
- Judicial Approval for the Practice of Filing More Than One Notice of Intention to Appoint an Administrator
- Community talks
- Putting the cart before the horse - the danger of starting work without a written contract
- Delays at the Office of the Public Guardian
- Will the world cup see the end of many marriages?
- NATIONAL FAMILY WEEK: SOLICITORS GIVE LOCAL CHILDREN'S CENTRE A BOOST
- World Cup Fever
- Volcanic ash clouds - an explosion of claims?
- Common Law Marriage Misconception
- Intellectual property in the manufacturing sector
- New procedures hope to encourage resolution of children disputes
- Putting right mistakes in trusts
- The importance of a properly drafted and executed will
- Beer tie under seige
- Bankrupt Beneficiaries
- Revised SCCO Guideline Hourly Rates Published
- Will Fit Notes (Get Us Back To) Work?
- Recording Charges over Intellectual Property Rights
- When is a child too young to be consulted by the Court? Legal history is made as the Court of Appeal redefines the boundaries.
- Dealing with Staff Stranded on Holiday
- Paying a Premium
- Volcanic ash clouds - force majeure?
- Commercial Fact Sheet - The Bribery Act 2010
- Just in time: the Bribery Act gets passed by Parliament
- Beer tie under siege
- Stamp Duty Land Tax change welcomed by House Builders
- Cut to Success Fees in Defamation Cases Delayed
- Wife not liable for re-mortgage signed during Husband's Affair
- Changes to publicly funded police station and magistrates fees
- Order for costs and the assessment of costs
- NEW POLL SHOWS POLITICAL POLICIES OUT OF STEP WITH NEEDS OF FAMILIES
- Ministry of Justice Announces Limitation to Success Fees in Defamation Cases
- Contingency Fee Agreements
- Review of Legal Aid Delivery
- LACKING ?THE ESSENTIAL OXYGEN OF COMMON SENSE?? Disclosing the Contents of ?Without Prejudice? Communications
- Case Summary - Tribunal Practice and Procedure
- The impact of redundancy upon divorce
- Settling a case but leaving the Court to determine costs
- Fight for this love?
- Essential reading - The Bribery Bill
- Proposed Limitation of Success Fees in Defamation Cases
- Negotiated settlements: Getting a Fair Deal
- ?Oh Lord, won?t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?" What does the innocent party have to do to mitigate its loss?
- New Rights for Agency Workers
- Funding a Probate Dispute
- The right to enforce
- Factors for an upward Variation
- First past the post for payment ? obtaining a charging order
- Case Report
- Trust Me....It's taken into account
- New Compensation Limits and Statutory Payments 2010
- HMRC deferred payment plans ? Still time to pay?
- In it for the long term - contractual negotiations
- The Civil Partnership Act 2004 - 4 years on
- Collaborative Prenups - the way forward?
- Up a creek without a boat? : Saying "no" to contractual obligations
- January big freeze heralds post-Christmas divorce avalanche
- Trust Me, its Foreseeable..
- Choosing the best way to start a divorce
- The duty to make reasonable adjustments
- The ECJ opens the door to a challenge to National Parental Leave Provisions
- Making the best of fault based divorce law
- January divorces and the recession
- Distressing Times?
- Looking ahead into 2010........
- Make sure your kids don?t get double sprouts ? planning Christmas across two households
- Beauty and the Beads
- Supreme Court gives judgment on bank charges test case
- Consumer Credit Act ? Unenforceable Loan and Credit Card Agreements?
- Don't get in a Fix
- More flexible Maternity and Paternity Leave: Another Administrative Burden for Business?
- Statements of Costs for Summary Assessment
- Confiscation Proceedings – Funding Order Amendment
- Additional Liabilities – New Notice Requirements
- New RTA claims process
- Payments on account of costs
- Companies Act 2006 ? Final Implementation
- How to hang on to wealth in recessionary times
- Maintenance: deserved or degrading?
- Keep it in the Family
- Constructive Dismissal: Notice Pay
- Fixed Costs in the Court of Protection
- Legal Aid Consultation
- Clarion Family Solicitor Featured in Independent on Sunday
- Where's the money gone - retrieving assets in a divorce case
- Specialist lawyers lead the way!
- Charities Act 2006 - Challenges For Charities
- How relationship breakdown can affect health
- The art of saying what you mean
- New report seeks to protect the 'neglected' marriage
- Domestic Violence in the workplace
- Recoverability of Inquest Costs
- Changes to litigator fees
- The Big Care Debate
- Accreditation for Emma
- Equal Pay: Landmark Decision
- Living Apart Together - Recession Help for Leeds Couples
- Abuse of process to issue protective proceedings prior to assignment of the cause of action
- More Maintenance for McFarlane
- Going, Going, Gone: Buying and Selling Property at Auction
- The Benefit of an All Monies Guarantee
- Redundancy pay rise
- Grandparents contact on relationship breakdown
- Reducing the risk of financial abuse of the elderly
- Lease Disclaimers and Authorised Guarantee Agreements
- Squatter?s rights over a riverbed?
- National Minimum Wage: Levelling the Playing Field
- EU talks on opt out collapse
- Company directors to be treated as employees
- Intestacy rules: who is entitled to administer the estate of somebody who has died without a will?
- Considerations for the Family Business upon Relationship Breakdown
- Trusts and family work
- Equality Bill set to expose gender pay gap
- Access all areas - family courts open up
- Performance Copyright extended by the European Parliament
- Budget 2009: Statutory redundancy pay to increase
- Conditional Fee Agreement - Assessing Risk
- Consultation on Central Funds
- an end to Innocence?
- Controversy in the application of Employment Law in Insolvency Proceedings
- Debt Relief Orders
- Business Intelligence ? The Link between IT and Business
- Administrative Justice Comes to Leeds
- Flexible working extended
- Recession hit Husband tries to Renegotiate Final Order on Divorce - The RESULT
- ClarioNet: Toasting to Success
- Judges' powers to fill gaps
- Top tips on coping at work when your personal relationship breaks down
- Co-operate before you sue - pre-action conduct
- If You Change Your Mind...
- Money Launderers and proceeds of crime
- Confiscation and Asset Forfeiture Review
- Chargot Judgement
- Health & Safety Offences Act 2008
- Bonuses: the credit crunch casualties
- Law on Couples is Out of Step with Modern Families
- Pre-pack Administrations - A Done Deal?
- Recession hit husband tries to renegotiate final divorce order
- Property-Reducing Costs and Managing Liablities in an Economic Downturn
- Win an Inn
- Unhealthy relationships
- Can't Pay, Won't Pay
- The importance of legal advice in the police station
- New Stop and Search Powers
- Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme ? scheme design published.
- Is divorce really on the up?
- Tougher tests for migrant workers
- There is a Better Way
- Confiscation Hearings : Requirement for Rulings Reinforced
- Dealing with Workplace Disputes after April 2009
- Virtual Lease Assignments - Tenants Beware
- Maintenance revisited
- Licensing reform - Proposals for change to the applications process
- Sales by administrators - Recent TUPE decision
- EPCs ? Issues for a Landlord to consider
- Glossary of legal terms: Estate Administration
- What to do when somebody dies
- LSC online re-launch
- The Burden of Proof in Detailed Assessment Proceedings
- Retrospective Conditional Fee Agreements
- Changes to Legal Services Commission Payments
- LSC Payment of VAT on Disbursements
- Divorce in a respectful way
- The girl is not mine!
- Holiday bonus for sick workers
- Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme ? a valuable rescue package?
- Gender pay differences - Staying under the radar?
- Is a landlord?s forfeiture right waived by accepting part of a cheque?
- Time To Remain Calm
- Directors' duties in relation to Insolvent Companies
- Opening Family Court Doors
- A further blow for Retailers
- Law Society President urges divorcees to use specialist lawyers
- Employers Offered Peace of Mind from Employment Claims
- Things Can Only Get Better?
- Happy new year?
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