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Oliver Fisher Solicitors is recognised for Social Housing and both Landlord & Tenant law in the UK. You will find our solicitors are passionately committed to defending both the rights of Tenants and Landlords. Because we act for both tenants and landlords we are best placed to pre-determine the steps and thought pattern of our opponents. Our housing lawyers will fight rigorously to get the best possible result we can achieve. We offer a full range of specialist housing law services including disrepair, evictions, homelessness, judicial reviews, illegal evictions, anti-social...

When a businessman died, he left his substantial and complex business affairs in the hands of his executors – his brother, his widow and his accountant. As his business had been run with his brother, it was agreed that the two families' respective interests were best served by splitting up the businesses they co-ran. One of the more complex aspects of the demerger negotiations was a claim for VAT refunds totalling tens of millions of pounds. The deceased man's brother considered the claims were likely to fail and offered to...

A recent decision of the High Court will come as a comfort to those whose ex-spouses have fallen into arrears with their child maintenance payments. It involved a man who was behind with child maintenance payments payable to the Child Support Agency when he died. He had also agreed to maintain a life assurance policy which would provide for his ex-wife and child in the event of his death, without telling his ex-wife, he stopped making payments so it lapsed. Had she known, she could have paid the premiums herself....

The Court of Appeal has taken the unusual step of concluding that a verbal agreement reached by a couple on a park bench should determine the outcome of a dispute over the ownership of a house. The two met in 1986 and began living together. In 1987, the male partner, Mr Ely, purchased a house for them to live in with the assistance of a mortgage. His partner, Ms Robson, owned another house nearby, which she retained. The couple had two children. Ms Robson purchased a further house in 1989. Her...