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28

Apr

2022

Lending Money to a Friend, No Matter How Trusted, Carries Serious Risks

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Written by Leanne Schneide...

No matter how much you respect and trust your friends, lending them money can be fraught with risk and should never be done without firstly taking professional advice. A case on point concerned a couple who lent £210,000 to a neighbour to help him...

25

Mar

2021

Bankruptcy Order made against Alzheimer's sufferer overturned

Leanne Schneider-Rose's picture

Written by Leanne Schneide...

Judges will not tolerate any watering down of the powerful protection given to elderly, infirm or otherwise vulnerable people who lack the mental capacity to conduct litigation. The High Court made that point in overturning a bankruptcy order made...

18

Feb

2021

Inner workings of online property platforms analysed in shares sale row

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Written by Roy Colaba

Purchasers of private companies sadly often feel that they have been sold a pup, but making such an assertion is a great deal easier than proving it. That was certainly so in a case concerning the acquisition of a commercial lettings agency in which...

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