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Landlord & Tenant News - Supreme Court Cases

27th February 2014

Permission to Appeal to the Supreme Court was granted in Rawdon Crozier’s case of Britton v Arnold [2013] EWCA Civ 902, [2013] L. & T.R. 24 by Lord Neuberger, Lord Carnwarth and Lord Toulson on the 11th. February 2014. Rawdon became involved in the case, which has potentially far-reaching consequences for the construction of leases, when he secured permission to appeal to the Court of Ap…

Re K (In Bankruptcy) 24/2/2014 (Plymouth County Court)

26th February 2014

Instructed by petitioning creditor to seek bankruptcy order and oppose the debtors application to set aside the statutory demand listed as a combined hearing before District Judge Richards. The facts were unusual in that unknown to the creditor the debtor had already been made bankrupt and a dividend issued by the trustee in bankruptcy some years previously. The debtor disputed these facts allegin…

Andrew Willetts speaks at Law Society on Disputed Wills

14th February 2014

Andrew Willetts, a member of our Probate, Succession & Trusts team, was invited to speak at the Law Society’s Private Client Winter Seminar on the topic of Disputed Wills at the Sandy Park Conference Centre Exeter on 13th February 2014. Andrew provided a comprehensive overview and analysis of recent cases on the subject of contentious probate addressing the five main challenges to the va…

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