Insights
29 Mar 2017
Being in a “wretchedly unhappy marriage” not good enough reason for divorce
Three Court of Appeal Judges have ruled that Tini Owens had failed to prove that her 39 year marriage to retired businessman, Hugh Owens, had legally irretrievably broken down. Mrs Owens (66) who lives in Worcestershire, had applied to overturn a ruling by the Family Court who said that her marriage to Mr Owens (78), […]
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16 Mar 2017
Daughter cut out of Will loses animal charities fight that went on for over a decade
What happened? In 2002 mother, Melita Jackson, made her last will and testament with a letter explaining that she had disinherited her daughter after she walked out of the family home in 1978, to live with her boyfriend. Ms Jackson left almost all of her £486,000 estate to the Blue Cross, the Royal Society for […]
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1 Mar 2017
Immigration: EU citizens could be deported or refused entry back into the UK under new “secret” Home Office enforcement powers
A briefing written by respected Immigration Barrister, Colin Yeo published on 27 February has warned of the new powers that the Home Office has acquired as a result of new regulations which came into force on 1 February 2017 – Regulations that seem to have been kept under wraps. Colin says “these regulations increasingly suggest […]
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4 Jan 2017
IMD Employee Qualifies as Solicitor
Congratulations to our very own Justyna Błażewicz who has now qualified as a Solicitor having completed her training contract with IMD Solicitors LLP. Justyna, who has specialised in both Family and Criminal Law since August 2013 has a busy caseload helping many of our individual clients with legal issues to encompass Crime (to include drink […]
Read more 28 Nov 2016
Life After Brexit : EU Nationals may be granted right to carry on living in UK
With 883,000 Polish and 229,000 Romanian nationals now living in the UK, the Brexit decision has understandably been a huge concern for EU nationals. The Telegraph recently reported that Prime Minster, Teresa May is set to strike up a reciprocal deal for EU nationals to carry on living in the UK and for UK Ex-Pats […]
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