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The Housing Secretary gave occupiers a Valentine's present this weekend by extending the date from which…

There are almost 2.4 million victims of domestic abuse a year; two-thirds of who are women and one-third are…

Many estates are not difficult to administer. Not everyone has complex financial circumstances. Often as…

Monday 18 January marks the beginning of Family Mediation Week. The purpose of this short article is to provide…

Graham Coy (Family Law Partner, Wilsons Solicitors LLP) and Ashley Palmer (Child Inclusive Family Mediator,…

"Out with the old and in with the new?"

At 23:01 on New Year's Eve, Thursday 31 December, when the Transition…

The country has seen light at the end of the tunnel with the approval last week of a vaccine, which it is hoped…

Before a Deputyship application is made to the Court of Protection, we must first obtain a capacity assessment…

The Care Quality Commission's (CQC) review into the application of Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitate (DNAR) orders…

This webinar was recorded on 26 November 2020.

In this video our Employment team discuss the challenges of…

From Peter Bourke, Senior Partner

As part of my extracurricular activity I am the current chairman of the…

There has been significant press coverage recently surrounding the developing area of digital assets and the…

This article was updated on 18 November 2020.

Further to our previous update on the extension to furlough, the…

Just a few hours before the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was due to come to an end in favour of the…

The end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 is now only 9 weeks away.

Coronavirus has stolen…

As we approach the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020, businesses which currently employ, or plan…

During the referendum campaign along with ‘Get Brexit Done’ what we heard a lot of was the introduction of new…

When should parents be looking elsewhere and not to Judges when they cannot agree upon arrangements for their…

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced the replacement to the Coronavirus Job Retention…

The Chancellor has, very recently, asked The Office for Tax Simplification to undertake a review of Capital…

It is usually the capital assets that are at the forefront of people's minds when parties are deciding how to…

That is the question which immediately comes to mind when reading the very recent decision of the Family…

At times it is hard to remember what life was like before the Coronavirus epidemic and before the Country was…

"The Wills Act 1837 has obviously been good law for some time. It's worth noting it survived the Spanish Flu…

The government will shortly put in place legislation for signing wills by video link. This will be backdated to…

Kate Penn, Associate Solicitor in the Residential Property Team and Alistair Lockhart, Commercial…

An article in this week's Telegraph (featuring Graham Coy from Wilsons) warns divorcing couples that, with the…

As part of a number of measures to alleviate the impact of coronavirus on the economy, the Chancellor has…

This week, the government has announced measures to lift the current prohibition on wedding ceremonies in…

The Supreme Court has just decided that a wife is able to claim maintenance in the English Courts…

New legislation will make it easier for victims to give evidence in court such as separate waiting rooms

The…

Whilst cryptocurrencies have been in existence for over 10 years, beginning with the launch of Bitcoin, these…

Why make a will?

This question is often asked and the same answers given, to name a few:

• Reduce Inheritance…

When the country went into lockdown due to the covid-19 pandemic in mid-March many businesses came to a…

Last week, the Chancellor announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will be extended until the…

The Coronavirus crisis and the lock-down measures have thrown up all sorts of problems, and one which we deal…

Judges will always want to find a way in which financial proceedings between a divorcing couple come to an end.…

Use of remote hearings by audio and video link must continue in UK courts after the coronavirus outbreak ends…

This is the second article in our brief series on the Coronavirus Bill. This piece of legislation received…

On Saturday 4 April the government issued updated guidance regarding the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme,…

On 30 March 2020 ALEP, the Association of Leasehold Extension Practitioners, of which Wilsons Solicitors LLP is…

Amid the COVID-19 outbreak Wilsons is working hard to provide the most up to date advice to our clients on all…

On Saturday, the government issued non-statutory guidance to landlords and tenants in relation to Covid-19. The…

In an update to our article of 25 March 2020 in relation to the amendment to notice periods on residential…