Personal information is the most valuable commodity you possess
Forget shares in Royal Mail or bricks and mortar: your most precious possession these days is your name, date of…
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Beat it! Michael Jackson’s family should have realised litigation is Dangerous
‘You wanna be startin’ somethin’?’ is not just a question Michael Jackson asked in his hit single, but one his…
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Beat it! Michael Jackson's family should have realised litigation is Dangerous
The moral of both these stories has to be that litigation is a potentially expensive business and a decision to…
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What are the rules and regulations about when and where you can get married?
Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger, Elle Macpherson and Jeffrey Soffer, Halle Berry and Oliver Martinez – just some of this…
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Becoming a lawyer
Author: Peter Matthews With typical City law firms receiving more than 1,000 applications for sometimes just a dozen training contract…
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Lord Grantham’s predicament: What Downton Abbey can teach us about dying without a will
Downton Abbey devotees and law students alike must have heaved a collective sigh of relief with the return to our…
ByLord Grantham's predicament: What Downton Abbey can teach us about dying without a will
While death at an early age is always tragic and as was observed of Matthew, he anticipated being around for…
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Tweeticide: How misusing Twitter can land you in a legal minefield
‘We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of…
ByDay of the remains: after Richard III was recovered, who owns your corpse?
It wasn’t surprising that there was a huge amount of press coverage when archaeologists at Leicester University uncovered Richard III’s…
ByFive ways to make your divorce easier
Getting divorced at any time is stressful and difficult, but here are five tried and tested tips to help you…
ByAfter Saatchi and Lawson, we uncover the truth about domestic violence among the wealthy
BLACK AND BLUE AND GOLD ‘What you’re seeking is the nurturing and the love following the violence. If you’re willing…
ByBoris Berezovsky’s will: Unravelling an estate as complex and contested as his life
Poor old Boris Berezovsky isn’t even having an easy time of it in death, with his will now shrouded in…
BySTEP: Couple committing ‘financial suicide’ by prolonging divorce
A senior family court judge has warned an international couple against dissipating their assets in legal costs, at a hearing…
ByHas the significance of Yasmin Prest’s divorce battle victory been overplayed?
The case of Petrodel v Prest has pitted family lawyers against their commercial colleagues. The former have been shouting ‘fairness’…
ByOur Perception of Single Fathers Needs Urgent Change
The role of dad has changed. No longer is he the just the archetypal breadwinner, the mysterious figure who makes…
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We need a proper debate about our planning system
LOOSE CHANGE ‘Can you imagine the outcry if we looked at our countryside without the railway system and somebody suggested…
ByA mysterious divorce and lingering death provoke a legal wrangle
It was an intriguing story. A husband who nursed his wife through her final illness learned subsequently that she’d divorced…
ByExpert analysis of the Prest judgment
The Supreme Court has handed down its ruling on the key Prest vs Petrodel Resources case today, inflicting a blow…
ByBarry Tucker’s Get Out of Jail Card
Nick/Tuck They stay in the shadows and don’t get name-checked at society soirées, but they can be worth their weight…
ByMyleene Klass and the Myth of the Quickie Divorce
Last Tuesday, Myleene Klass and her husband Graham Quinn received a so-called ‘quickie divorce’. In a matter of just 100…
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