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The Impact of the 2024 Budget on Your Estate Planning

The latest UK budget introduced several measures that may significantly impact your estate planning, with implications for Inheritance Tax (IHT), Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and pension transfers. These changes may affect the way you manage your estate, make tax-efficient transfers to beneficiaries, or utilise reliefs and exemptions effectively.

The Budget - And Why Your Business Should Now Get a Governance Health Check

Several measures announced in the Autumn Budget will affect businesses, and this serves as a timely reminder to review and update plans for your business.

School Choice Disputes: What Separated Parents Can Do

Jessica Firth-Brown
21 Oct 2024
Law Blog
Divorce & Separation News and Legal Updates
Family Emergency

Agreeing which school your child should attend can often be a source of conflict for separated parents. It may be that you have been able to agree the arrangements for your child amicably since separation but when it comes to the school and the distance from where each of you live, you simply cannot agree.

Christmas Arrangements for Separated Parents

Jessica Firth-Brown
21 Oct 2024
Law Blog
Divorce & Separation News and Legal Updates
Family Emergency

Christmas is for many in the UK the most important holiday of the year. Understandably, parents want to spend every Christmas with their children. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to be possible for separated parents.

Slips, Trips and Falls | Accidents in a Public Place

Aside from initial shock and embarrassment, accidents which happen in public places can have serious and long-lasting consequences. It is difficult to know where to start if you are thinking about taking action in relation to an accident which happened in a public place.

Victory at Appeal for Abuse Client

Personal Injury Partner Kim Overton and Associate Jemma Burt recently succeeded at CICA appeal for a client who had suffered historical physical and sexual abuse.