Martin Brown

A big fear for some people facing divorce and the inevitable carving up of the matrimonial assets. They seek assurances that such assets will be “ring-fenced” and retained for them.

Thinking about the legal status of being a cohabitant probably isn’t at the top of the ‘to do’ list.

When an individual is thinking about making a gift to another individual, consideration needs to be given to the Potentially Exempt Transfer (PET) trap.

We are now only a few weeks away from the biggest change to data protection laws in over 20 years. Are you compliant?

The tragedy, in this case, is that there were options readily available to the midwives that they could have used. This was not a case of having to go above and beyond.

Arising from the recent Family Division announcement, people who think they are legally divorced may in fact still be married.

The SCCS has issued providers in the scheme a series of updated and new documents in order to assist with their National Minimum Wage review.

On 27 July 2017, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”), announced that by the end of 2021, the FCA will not use its legal powers to compel or persuade banks to submit to LIBOR as they are not comfortable in doing so where there are only a few eligible term borrowing transactions by large banks.

A key feature of statutory payment mechanism is a requirement for employers to issue payment notices & pay less notices if monies are to be withheld from a contractor.