A round-up of legal updates for the Wills and probate industry over the past two months are as follows. Tax Policy – Finance Act 2023 On 10 January 2023, the Finance (No 2) Bill 2022 received Royal Assent and became
More about Wills and Probate Monthly Update – February 2023Partner Edward Starling discusses shareholder and partner disputes in the accountancy sector and the limited number outcomes available when they are escalated, published in The Accountant. Whether an accountancy practice is dealing with its own internal issues or where accountants
More about The accountant: Shareholder and Partner disputes – How did it come to this?Quarterly In Advance is published by Wedlake Bell’s Real Estate Team for our clients and contacts in the property world. Please click the image below to read the full issue. Contents
More about QIA – Winter 2023With less than three months to go until the government’s next deadline in its energy efficiency agenda, landlords need to take action now to either comply or register a valid exemption. The MEES Regulations require a minimum energy efficiency standard
More about Common ‘mee’stakes – What you need to knowWe are all aware of the Bank of England’s stark warning that the UK now faces its longest recession since records began, with rising interest rates and inflation running at a 40-year high. Against this backdrop, and with the cost
More about Give me a break!The UK government brought in various measures to restrict the use of assets as a result of the invasion of Ukraine. The measures are known as the sanctions regime. Andrew Griffith, the economic secretary to the Treasury, said: “As staunch
More about How could sanctions affect property transactions?Service charge payments will be a familiar term to most residential and commercial lessees. The amount you have to pay in service charge in any given year is dependent on a number of factors, and the starting point is always
More about I don’t know about you, I’m fearing section 20 tooLast year we reported on a Court of Appeal decision which introduced some uncertainty around the validity of overlapping or ‘drop in’ planning permissions for multi-phased development schemes and also cast doubt over whether development lawfully undertaken in part of
More about On the hillside again – An update on inconsistent planning permissions