Blog archive: May, 2019
Your Place or Mine?
Thankfully, the question of proving possession of property does not often arise. When it does, it is always interesting to see the approach taken by the courts on adverse possession. Adverse possession arises where a person who is not the legal owner to a property or piece of land can make a valid claim to …
Your Place or Mine?
Working from home
As technology continues to break down the old ways of working, more and more businesses are encouraging their employees to work from home. The Government is equally enthusiastic and is looking to support the move with new legislation. Most residential leases restrict the property to being used only as a private dwelling and many freehold …
Working from home
Fit for habitation
Following the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 which came into force on 20 March 2019, residential accommodation rented to tenants, must be provided and maintained in a state fit for human habitation. Therefore, a property must be brought up to a certain standard even where at the start of that tenancy there was …
Fit for habitation
I do, or not I do?
The Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 comes into force on 26 May 2019 allowing both same-sex and opposite-sex couples to choose either marriage or civil partnership. It has taken well over a decade to achieve equality in this area. In December 2005 the Civil Partnership Act was implemented. This enabled same-sex …
I do, or not I do?
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- Paul Werth Senior Solicitor, Property Disputes
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- Adam Hogg Solicitor, Wills trusts and probate
- Alasdair McMillin Managing Partner
- Amy Brunt Senior Associate, Residential Property
- Asha Ngai Partner, Residential Property
- Barney Laurence Partner, Dispute resolution
- Caroline Vernon Partner, Residential Property
- Donna Payne Senior Solicitor, Wills trusts and probate
- Geraldine Fabre Senior Counsel, Head of French Group
- Gill Talbot Conveyancing Assistant, Residential Property
- George Thomas
- Isabel Wolfe Barry
- Jessica Lloyd Senior Associate, Commercial Property
- Joanne Perry Partner, Employment
- Kiall Bagnell Senior Associate, Corporate Commercial
- Kirsty Limacher Solicitor, Wills trusts and probate
- Laurel Zhang Associate, Head of China & Southeast Asia Group
- Manzoor Ishani Consultant, Franchising
- Mark Fellows Partner, Employment
- Melissa Menelaou Marketing and Events Executive
- Michael Lewis Partner, Property Disputes
- Nicola Edmondson
- Nicole Marmor Consultant, Wills, Trusts and Probate
- Paul Marmor Partner, Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation
- Paul Werth Senior Solicitor, Property Disputes
- Rachael Drane Solicitor Apprentice
- Shreya Kargathra Solicitor, Commercial property
- Stephanie Kierans Partner, Commercial Property
- Terry Fendt Partner, Commercial Property
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