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How would you or others on your behalf manage your financial affairs or make decisions about your future care if you were unable to make decisions yourself? One option is to appoint an attorney to act for you by a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA).…

You may be aware of the events of activist groups claiming million pound properties in London. A recent event in February saw the Belgravia Building, owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko, raided at midnight to evict the squatters. Some may see these events as an…

Have you ever ordered something from the internet and when it arrives you think ‘that’s not satisfactory, fit for purpose or as described?’ If you’ve bought something that prompts you to think this then you may have a claim under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.…

Employers will be required to publish details of their gender pay gap when the government’s draft regulations on gender pay gap reporting will, if approved by parliament, come into force on 6 April 2017. The regulations will apply to employers with 250 or more employees…

As Christmas approaches and the January Sales follow, we may all find ourselves stuck in a long shop queue panicking that our free car parking period is about to run out.  But what happens if it does?  Do we have to pay charges levied by…

With ‘Black Friday’ looming on November 25thand Christmas presents in mind, most of us will have purchased items we want to return and learned that trying to do this and claim a refund is not always easy. The Sale of Goods Act 1979 (‘the SGA’)…

You may have noticed kids, teens or adults walking along glued to their smartphone, oblivious to their surroundings. The chances are that they are playing the recently released ‘Pokémon Go’ game. Does this affect me? If as a Pokémon chaser you stray onto someone else’s…

Question: Is an employer required to make adjustments to an employee’s duties, work place or hours of work if they have a medical condition? Advice: There is a requirement upon an employer to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ where an employee is suffering from a disability under the…