Actress Scarlett Johansson filed for divorce from French journalist Romain Dauriac in New York on grounds of “the marriage being irretrievably broken.” She requested joint legal custody and residential custody of the couple’s 2-year- old daughter. The couple married in 2014. The court documents ask for the enforcement of a prenuptial agreement. This is the…
21st Century Fox has defended its £11.7bn takeover bid for broadcaster Sky after Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said she was “minded” to intervene in the deal after concerns about about media plurality and broadcasting standards. Ms Bradley has been weighing up whether to refer the deal to Ofcom after warning it could pose “public interest…
A court has ordered Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley to pay $10,000 a month for five months of her estranged husband Michael Lockwood’s legal expenses as she divorces him. A point of contention is the couple’s 2007 post-nuptial agreement. Lockwood was demanding that a post-nuptial agreement that the two had signed in 2007 should…
Balfour Beatty, the engineering company behind the transformation of the former Olympic Stadium into West Ham’s London Stadium made an £8m profit, after a £199m loss in 2015. In the next few years it plans to be part of the High Speed 2 (HS2) project, the new nuclear power stations at Hinkley and Wylfa, and…
Audrey Hepburn’s eldest son Sean Ferrer is being sued by The Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund, the charity he helped establish because it says he is interfering with its attempts to raise money for children. Money was being raised largely by exhibiting her clothing – some created by fashion designer Givenchy. The charity is saying that…
It’s been a busy time of late at Wrigley Claydon solicitors Oldham as a number of personnel changes have taken place, including the retirement of a Senior Partner. Godfrey Pickles is retiring as Senior Partner and handing over to Vijay Srivastava. Mr Pickles has been with the firm for more than 30 years. He has…
The late actress Audrey Hepburn, who died in 1993, left memorabilia including hats, scarves, jewellery, posters, costumes, photos, scripts and awards, which caused a dispute between her two sons, Sean Ferrer and his half-brother Luca Dotti who each wanted a tangible piece of their late mother. Hepburn had left her sons a 50/50 cut of…
The new minimum wage rates came into force from 1 st October 2016. In light of the subsequent Autumn statement and the forecasts of the Office for Budget Responsibility on wage stagnation, we take a brief look on what they are, how they affect young people and how employers can comply with legislation. Age Group…
Jennifer Garner is to reportedly file for divorce from Ben Affleck. They had been married for nearly 12 years. The couple split in June 2015, however, since then there has been reports the two were reconciling. Ben Affleck recently praised Jennifer Garner as being “the greatest mom in the world.” The couple have three children…
An accountant forged his dead mother’s will to take control of a slice in his family’s £160million palm oil business. Girish Dahyabhai Patel from north London, used a blank document, pre-signed by his mother, before adding a will around it. Mr Patel was caught out by forensic analysis, which revealed the faint indentation of her…