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Tuesday 20th October 11am at Orpington Library — We will be giving a talk entitled “Protecting your family assets” Subjects to be discussed include: The importance of having a Will and why you must keep it up to date The benefits to you and your loved ones of having a Lasting Power of Atto...

Having a trampoline could land you with a £100,000 bill. Insurer warn parents over huge cost if another family’s child is injured playing at their home Click here to read more on this story....

A blind man had fallen from a bedroom window at the Defendant’s home sustaining paraplegia. His claim was worth over £2million. Liability for the accident was disputed. The Court found, on the evidence, that the Defendant had left the window open as the room was being made up. The Claimant ha...

A construction company has been fined for safety failings which led to a two-year-old boy wandering onto a building site. The principal contractor for a new build housing development at Oak Road, Blaina were served an improvement notice on the site after site security issues were not addressed, des...

You leave an estate worth over a million pounds and don’t leave a Will — the taxman is rubbing his hands ! Click here to find out how Trigger got it wrong !  ...

Essex tree specialist company, Oak View Tree Specialists Limited, has been fined after a skip loading dumper overturned severely injuring a worker. Basildon Magistrates’ Court heard how the injured person, who was an employee at the company, was working at the rear of a house in Benfleet, Essex on...

Proceedings arose from an accident in Portugal in which two pedestrians were killed after being knocked down by a speeding car while in the process of crossing a road. The case came for trial before Supperstone J . It was an agreed fact at trial that soon after the pedestrians stepped into the road ...

A landmark court ruling has seriously undermined the right of people to leave money and assets to whom they wish, lawyers have warned.  A woman has been awarded £164,000 from her estranged mother’s estate after a  judge ruled that her mother did not leave “reasonable provision” for her in t...

We are pleased to inform our clients that in the budget today the Chancellor has advised that the nil rate band for Inheritance Tax is to be increased in  2017 to £500,000 for a single person. This means that married couples should be able to pass assets worth up to £1m to their families without ...

23 June 2015 A roofer has been fined after exposing workers and the home owners to potentially deadly asbestos fibres at a domestic property in Suffolk. 6 August 2014, David Cummings, t/a Cummings Flat Roofing was commissioned to repair and reroof a porch in Martlesham, Suffolk. During the reroofing...