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Compensation claims for serious injuries can take years to settle. Often, claimants who have themselves been seriously injured or have been bereaved will need financial assistance before then. Interim...

A valid caveat stops any application for a grant of probate, other than by the person who lodged it (the caveator). Anyone who wants to override a caveat must get the caveator’s agreement or underta...

Since the law changed in 2016 it has been easier for tenants to make RRO applications as tenants can apply straight to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) without waiting for the local authorit...

I recently settled a case for our client Mr Smith* who sustained life-changing injuries in a road traffic collision in 2018.   Background Mr Smith was riding his moped along Kennington L...

If you are owed money by somebody who has passed away, you should be repaid in full from their estate (the money and property they have left behind), providing the estate is not insolvent. Where th...

What is an Inquest? An Inquest is a public judicial inquiry into the death of an individual. It is ultimately a fact-finding process where a Coroner will answer four important questions: Who t...

If an executor named under a will is not advancing the administration of an estate, you may be able to push the progress along and force their hand by issuing a citation at the Probate Registry. A cit...

The new Property Portal will provide a single ‘front door’ but what does it mean in practice? Following the Housing and Planning Act 2016, the government at the time introduced the Database of...