Insights

Many are aware of the differing standards of proof between civil and criminal matters. In criminal prosecutions, the case has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt, whereas in civil claims findings are...

Perhaps the principle reason behind the development of trusts in common law was not tax savings, but the delivery of family money to those who could not manage it effectively. Many trusts in the past...

It is a sad fact that the vulnerable are far more susceptible to fraud than the capable. One would assume therefore that professionals would owe a higher duty of care, when advising vulnerable people....

We have seen an increase in the number of enquiries from clients relating to losses from binary option trading schemes. A binary option, or fixed odds betting is a financial option where the payoff...

Property and affairs deputies and attorneys have a duty to ensure that they consider a client’s succession plans as far as possible when making financial decisions on behalf of an individual who has...

There has, for a long time, been a debate as to whether, in order to establish dishonesty, one has to show that the perpetrator knew he was being dishonest. To illustrate; a tourist using public tr...

Further to our blog on HMRC’s New Trust Registration Service and following the inevitable difficulties and pressures faced by agents of trustees at this busy time of year, HMRC have extended the dea...

How a person’s care is funded can be an extremely complicated area – there are many different types of funding that a protected party may be eligible for and as an Attorney or Deputy it is importa...