Viewpoints

HMRC's most recent rise in the rate of interest charged on late payment of inheritance tax (IHT), now a punitive 7.75%, focuses attention...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced last November that he would freeze the nil-rate band threshold for inheritance tax (IHT) at £325,000...

Within Nigel Farage’s interview on Radio 4 was a comment about the broader issue of AML legislation impacting small businesses, with...

Back in 2020 and 2021, nearly 12 million files were released detailing offshore structures created on behalf of wealthy individuals in...

In the recent case of DR v UG (2023 EWFC 68), the court rejected a husband’s claim to depart from an equal division of matrimonial assets...

With the dust having settled after last month’s Budget, what seems to be preoccupying our clients? Certain topics crop up again and again...

Some interesting commentary here from The Times about the case of Dawn Webb, who inadvertently revoked her Will by getting married,...

After a 66 year marriage, a woman whose husband's will left everything to their two sons and leaving no provision for her or their four...

This week the High Court threw out a claim by Anne Lettice (70) that the £105,000 left to her by her mother Margaret (who died in April...

A year has passed since the case of Re PW (Jehovah's Witness: Validity of Advance Decision), a case which added to the (very) small body...

The press is awash with speculation about the possible tax policies to be pursued by either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss. Perhaps when...

Whilst not many headlines will be this colourful (no parrot-related pun intended), this is yet another case that highlights the...