Insights

Beth Holden, a solicitor in the Anthony Gold commercial team explains how she recovered half a million pounds of our client’s life savings from conveyancing solicitors who unknowingly acted for a fr...

The recent decision of Mr Justice Pelling in Purrunsing v A’Court & Co and House Owners Conveyancers Limited [2016] EWHC 789 (Ch), has generated much interest, and alarm,about the extent of...

The recently decided appeal in Burns v Burns [2016] EWCA Civ 37 bears a resemblance to my successful 2015 case McCabe v McCabe. In both cases, the will of an elderly testatrix was challenged. In Mc...

Last summer I secured a victory for my client in McCabe v McCabe [2015] EWHC 1591, a contentious probate dispute about an elderly testatrix’s will. The case was an important re-examination of the pr...

It is time for reflection on the successes and lessons of 2015.  It was an important year for our Contentious Probate department. We were listed in the Legal 500, having gone from strength to strengt...

It is putting it mildly to say that a person claiming relief from the Forfeiture Rule is throwing themselves on the mercy of the Court, whilst risking it all in costs.  It’s a serious gamble. One t...

The Court of Appeal has decided a vitally important question of law under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Lady Justice Arden, giving judgment in Ilott v Mitson [2015] E...

In MORRELL & ANOR v STEWART & ANOR (2015) High Court has just awarded damages to purchasers of a house, boarding kennels, and cattery, representing the diminution in value of their land. The C...