A former judge and her husband who forged a dead man’s will in order to obtain two country cottages which they then converted into a £325,000 home were jailed for six months each earlier today. Margaret and Alan Hampshire made it appear as though Martin Blanche had left his house to an elderly cousin of…
A farmer has been criticised by a Judge for harassing his neighbours in a right of way dispute. Peter Robinson insisted on driving his tractor at a snail’s pace along a track leading up to his farm in County Durham. He put in more than a dozen speed bumps in a bid to make life…
We acted for a commercial landlord who sued his tenant for unpaid rent and service charges. We successfully obtained a Judgment in the sum of £90,000 and costs following a trial in the County Court. Running a business can be difficult in this today’s economic climate and with the uncertainties following Brexit. It can be…
A financier’s widow who is battling her stepdaughter over his £18million estate has denied claims she ‘bullied and dominated’ her frail husband. Richard Thornton died in 2013 leaving half his estate to his wife Susie. The other half of the estate went into a trust for the rest of his family, including his three adult…
Robbie Williams, the former Take That singer is in dispute with rock and roll legend neighbour Jimmy Page after the Led Zeppelin founder objected to William’s plans over fears it could damage his nearby Grade-I listed home. Williams bought the £17million property from the family of late film director Michael Winner in December 2013, but…
Beatles producer Sir George Martin left an estate worth more than £1million but failed to leave anything to his eldest son Greg following a rift. Sir George, often described as ‘The Fifth Beatle’, died in March aged 90 and left a £1million estate in his will, with the majority of it being left to his…
We successfully defended a claim in the High Court when a family member challenged the fact that no provision had been made for him a Will. Had the claim succeeded then the executor and sole beneficiary of the Will would have had to sell property in order to pay any award made by the Court.…
A couple in Market Weighton have spent tens of thousands of pounds in a row with neighbours over a hedge say they’re prepared to go to jail to prove it belongs to them. In 2012 when Steve and Sandra Marshall discovered a hole had been cut from the middle of the bushes. Their next-door neighbours…
Producers of The Great British Bake Off reportedly engaged lawyers and threatened to sue the BBC. It has been reported that the BBC was involved in a dispute with Love Productions back in 2014 over a hairdressing competition called Hair, which originally been shown on BBC3. Produced by the BBC, Hair documented the quest to…
Hundreds of thousands of VW, Audi and SEAT owners are set to use new ‘class action’ rights which comes into force on 29 September 2016 pursuant to under the Consumer Rights Act, to sue Volkswagen for fixing the exhaust gas checks on its diesel cars to make them appear more green. VW has put aside…