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This week, Oliver Fisher’s trainee solicitor Olivia Doherty achieved an excellent result under severe time constraints in a noise nuisance dispute. Details of the noise nuisance dispute The client, who is considered disabled and suffers with extreme anxiety, depression, and PTSD, faces an anti-social behaviour injunction from his landlord for noise nuisance. Typically, a client is represented from the beginning of their dispute. But in this instance, Oliver Fisher received instruction with just a week to obtain legal aid and prepare for the hearing. Ms Doherty successfully obtained legal aid for the civil...

Last month, Oliver Fisher solicitor Martha Mpangile took an unlawful eviction case from instruction to hearing in less than a week. Mpangile got the best result possible, all whilst working remotely. Details of the unlawful eviction When Hackney mum Hale Fedai returned to her home after nursing her mother back to health from Covid-19, she discovered that her landlady had changed the locks and thrown away all her belongings. Ms Fedai reached out to Oliver Fisher for help. Her solicitor Ms Mpangile quickly secured legal aid for the case and made an...

For many parents, the objective of a will is to ensure even-handed treatment of loved ones, particularly children. However, as a High Court case strikingly showed, some may be more needy than others and that too should be taken into account. The case concerned a married father of two who died in a domestic house fire. By his will, he left his entire estate – which was valued at £554,000 before deduction of Inheritance Tax – to his widow. She moved into a private care home after his death at...

It is easy to be tempted by exotic investment schemes that promise spectacular returns. However, as a High Court case strikingly showed, they are often too good to be true and it is always wise to get an independent professional to check them out before parting with your money. More than 100 small investors were persuaded to dig into their pension pots to buy 15-year leases of trees which had been inoculated with truffle spores. They spent at least £6.5 million on almost 9,000 leases, at a price of between...