For You and Your Family Service: Dispute resolution

Marie Smale

Solicitor, Dispute Resolution

A Case of Simultaneous Deaths: Who Died First?

Kellie Williams-Jauvel, Partner in our Dispute Resolution team who specialises in contested wills, trusts and probate looks into a case o...

Morrisons Solicitors Basement Extensions and Property Conference 2019

We are pleased to invite you to the third Morrisons Solicitors Basement Extensions and Property Conference. The conference brings togethe...

Fixed recoverable costs – here we go….

Yesterday, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed that it intends to implement Sir Rupert Jackson’s Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) in...

Rights to Light: Common Misunderstandings

A right to light is a right to receive uninterrupted light, passing across neighbouring land, into a window. If a building owner has a ri...

Conditional Break Clauses (We want prenup! We want prenup…yeah!)

The Court has recently been asked in the case of Goldman Sachs International –v- Procession House Trustee 1 Limited and Procession House ...

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Court Modernisation: online court made public

Kellie Williams-Jauvel a Partner in our Dispute Resolution team discusses the modernisation of the court that was made earlier this month...

The Court of Appeal overturns the electronic service apple-cart

In a judgment published yesterday, The Court of Appeal has held that a Party Wall Award can be validly served by email so as to set time ...

Rent Review: when is time of the essence?

In the recent case of Proxima GR Properties Ltd –v- Michael Spence, the Court was asked to assess whether the landlord was barred from im...

Discretionary trust: Friend or Faux?

A recent case last month clarified some of the principles that the Courts will use to establish whether or not a trust is merely a sham a...

Damage or defect – to what extent is a freeholder liable for injury...

Graham Halsall looks at a freeholder’s duty of care to visitors to a property and how this can differ depending on the state of the premi...

When is a dwelling not a dwelling?

Adam Waters looks at recent case of JLK Ltd v Esekwe and others, in which the Court considered the meaning of a “dwelling” in the context...

Property disputes for businesses

Property disputes for businesses Overview Our services Meet the team News and insight Most businesses operate from a leased office, facto...

Morrisons Solicitors Basement Extensions Conference 2017

The conference: We are pleased to invite you to Morrisons Solicitors’ second Basement Extensions Conference. The conference brings togeth...

Sally Hutchings

Senior Associate Solicitor , Dispute Resolution