New Statutory Legacy Figure Review Overdue

The Lord Chancellor’s review of the Statutory Legacy figure has exceeded the 5 year limit for making an Order to Parliament. The Statutory Intestacy Rules set out the distribution of an estate where the deceased did not write a Will. Where the deceased person left a surviving spouse or civil partner, children and an estate […]
Conflict Coaching Firm Launched By Lawyer

Julia Burns, a solicitor who specialises in contentious private client cases has launched a private client mediation and conflict coaching business called Dove in the Room. Ms Burns is the first solicitor to become a specialist private client mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), and that the business aimed to meet the […]