News / 2005

ENDOWMENT COMPLAINTS

Word has been received of proposals for the new lay complaints authority to have power to issue guidance to the legal profession.

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PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

When your client, taking your advice, has just concluded missives for the purchase of a penthouse new build at the price of ?500,000 plus and now seeks to find, in the market, the wherewithal to fund that purchase via the traditional townhouse purchased thirty years previously for about 5% of...

It has been reported that the Portman Building Society now refuses buy to let mortgages on new flats. This market has been so attractive for many years that it now may have reached a situation of over supply.

Under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention 1929, airlines which carry passengers internationally may be liable for accidents causing bodily injury.

The SFA can obtain restitution orders against solicitors who have been knowingly concerned in a client's unauthorised investment business in breach of Section 3 of the Financial Services Act 1986.

When your client, taking your advice, has just concluded missives for the purchase of a penthouse new build at the price of ?500,000 plus and now seeks to find, in the market, the wherewithal to fund that purchase via the traditional townhouse purchased thirty years previously for about 5% of...

A Polish national, Mr Szoma applied for income support but was turned down by the Benefits Agency on the grounds that he was not lawfully present within the UK and his appeal against that refusal was allowed by the Appeal Tribunal who awarded income suport, refused on appeal to the Commissioners...