Published Articles

Apr

2018

Movers and shakers celebrate legal award for Sydney Mitchell

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Over 80 guests joined partners and staff of leading Midlands’ law firm Sydney Mitchell LLP at a celebratory “Movers & Shakers” Birmingham networking event. The event was held to celebrate the firm winning the 2018 Birmingham Law Society Law...

Apr

2018

The Taxation of Termination Payments

Written by Sydney Mitchell

The rules governing the taxation of termination payments are being tightened from 6 April 2018 by means of legislation to amend Chapter 3, Part 6 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003. Hitherto, where the employee's contract of...

Apr

2018

Be careful who you trust with your finances

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Giving someone else power of attorney over your finances can be a useful means of ensuring that your affairs will be properly managed if you lose the capacity to do so yourself. However, one case in which a war veteran's money was plundered by a man...

Apr

2018

Failure to address expert report proves costly

Written by Sydney Mitchell

When a tenant of industrial land failed to adhere to a notice to quit the premises, the landlord brought a legal action under the law of trespass for its lost rental income – £12,000 per annum. The tenant did nothing and the landlord then instructed...

Apr

2018

Squatters’ Rights – Make use of your land or face losing it!

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Those who do not make use of their land take a risk that title to it will be acquired by others in the exercise of so called squatters’ rights. Exactly that happened in one case in which property owners objected in vain to their neighbour...

Apr

2018

Auto-Enrolment – Increase in minimum required contribution levels

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Employers are reminded that the minimum required contribution levels to auto-enrolment pension schemes or qualifying workplace pension schemes (based on a worker's 'qualifying earnings') increase from 6 April 2018. From that date, the employer...

Apr

2018

Cross-border divorce – Where does jurisdiction lie?

Written by Teresa Mannion

Former couples can obtain divorces in almost any country to which they have a sufficiently close connection and that is a frequent source of jurisdictional disputes. In one case, the High Court found that a woman had wrongly been granted an English...

Apr

2018

DIY Approach to property purchase proves costly

Written by Sydney Mitchell

You might think that something as seemingly simple as buying a pitch for a caravan is straightforward enough to do yourself, but a recent example shows why no sensible person would consider entering into a property transaction without employing a...

Apr

2018

Valuations – Close is Close enough

Written by Sydney Mitchell

The property asset bubble that presaged the financial crisis of 2008 led to many disputes as property values tumbled and the profitability of many businesses did too, leading to loan defaults and many insolvencies. Where there are loan defaults, the...

Mar

2018

Premature contract signature proves expensive

Written by Adam Oleskow

Signing a contract before you are sure you are willing to complete it can be a huge mistake: judges do not flinch from enforcing valid contracts, as a recent case shows. It involved a man who reneged on a deal to buy a family home for £5 million. He...

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Movers and shakers celebrate legal award for Sydney Mitchell

The Taxation of Termination Payments

Be careful who you trust with your finances

Failure to address expert report proves costly

Squatters’ Rights – Make use of your land or face losing it!

Auto-Enrolment – Increase in minimum required contribution levels

Cross-border divorce – Where does jurisdiction lie?

DIY Approach to property purchase proves costly

Valuations – Close is Close enough

Premature contract signature proves expensive

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