Case Law Developments

In 2016, the UK government announced that hundreds of UK properties, suspected of belonging to corrupt individuals, would be seized by enforcement agencies under a tough new tool: Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs)

Tax Titbits has been in lockdown, but with restrictions easing it now returns and Rawlinson & Hunter will continue to provide you with monthly updates on important tax developments in the private client world...

Recent years have seen a major increase both in HMRC's powers and also the information at HMRC's disposal. The Finance Bill 2020/21 published this July introduces a further measure giving HMRC a significant new power to obtain information

Why it is important that pension pots are not forgotten in a divorce settlement...

what does the Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing judgment means for trustees and beneficiaries with regard to the disclosure and access to data they can expect, including where a trust is governed by the law of another jurisdiction?

The UK government has said that it will amend legislation that will allow individuals to have their wills witnessed via video links

The backlog of outstanding cases in the Family Courts reached 60,500 in May 2020, an 11 percent increase on the 54,600 cases before coronavirus

UK law firm Irwin Mitchell has been instructed by John Clitheroe, who has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for his appeal for his mother’s two wills to be reinstated

A husband looking to have the finances of his divorce heard in Scotland rather than England has had his appeal dismissed in full by the Supreme Court