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Poor quality property conveyancing is a sadly common source of neighbour disputes and that is why it is so crucial to engage specialist solicitors to do the job. A case on point concerned a poorly demarcated boundary which went unnoticed for years before it became the focus of conflict between rural homeowners. The case concerned a farmhouse and a barn which were in common ownership until 1986 when the barn was sold off. The conveyance used an inadequate plan to show the intended boundary between the two properties. The written...

Sensible people accept that they have a moral responsibility financially to maintain their children, whether or not they are born in wedlock. As a High Court case showed, the extent of such responsibilities largely depends on needs, reasonable lifestyle expectations and the availability of resources to meet them. The case concerned a couple who never married but whose relationship endured for about seven years, yielding a planned and much-wanted daughter. The father, a highly successful entrepreneur, was worth about £190 million. The mother asserted that, while they lived together, there...

If you believe that you have suffered loss due to negligent financial advice, there are powerful reasons why you should consult a lawyer straight away. In a case on point, an elderly couple who claimed to have been ill-advised to enter into an interest-only mortgage came within an ace of having their claim struck out for delay. The couple claimed that they were negligently advised to remortgage their home for £250,999 on an interest-only basis when a capital repayment mortgage would have been affordable by them and better suited to...

Where a British child inherits foreign property, tricky legal issues can arise. However, as one case showed, English judges are well able to deal with such difficulties by applying the overriding principle that the child's welfare is always paramount. The case involved an 11-year-old boy whose father died without making a will. Under Italian law, he automatically inherited a 25 per cent share in an Italian holiday home owned by his parents. His mother, who held 75 per cent of the property, wished to sell it at a good price...