If you are awarded a large personal injury claim, should you take the money in a lump sum, or should you opt for regular payments? Some of the largest sums awarded in civil actions - on both sides of the Atlantic - are for medical negligence, personal injury, and the like. This is because many [...]
A top investment banker and her stay-at-home husband are locked in an £11m divorce battle, after an argument on a family holiday ended their marriage. House husband, Weng Choy, filed for divorce from his "breadwinner" wife, Lena Tan, in January 2012, after a row days earlier on New Year's Eve, whilst on a family holiday [...]
Major life events are often the catalyst for equally sizable financial decisions, so most advisors are well versed in what it takes to help their wealthy clients prepare for and manage key milestones. Some events, however, happen without warning, such as death or divorce. Unwelcomed circumstances such as these require a special approach. Late last [...]
While a judge had commendable goals in declaring an end to lawyers’ practice of reviewing draft expert reports, her recent Superior Court decision may have the unwelcome consequence of affecting who counsel retain as experts. According to Justice Janet Wilson’s conclusions in Moore v. Getahun on Jan. 14, counsel’s practice of reviewing draft expert reports [...]
Matrimonial Survey 2013 Our 10th annual matrimonial survey of UK family lawyers looks at current trends in family law – and reveals the who, why and how much of UK divorce. Since the inception of Grant Thornton’s matrimonial survey 10 years ago, the landscape of family law has changed considerably, with shifting family dynamics [...]
Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews' plan to equip couples with $200 vouchers for counselling could drive the national divorce rate down, Relationships Australia says. The government's $20 million, 12-month trial will start on July 1. It is the brainchild of Mr Andrews, who has said he wants to ''help couples achieve a greater degree of [...]
personal injury claims (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series) Nearly £100,000 was paid by Redbridge Council in compensation for accidents and injuries in schools, new figures show. In the past five years, the authority received 61 personal injury claims, acccording to a freedom of information discolusre to the Employment Law Advisory [...]
Dealing with Divorce Renee Bauer has served as a family law practitioner for 10 years supporting struggling couples with the process of divorce. The local resident said that with so much inaccurate material available about the subject, she thought it would be fitting to combine her knowledge of the business and her passion [...]
Garda saliva test for drug drivers Tenders will issue early next year for a new roadside device to test motorists for illegal drugs and medicines that can impair driving, Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has said. The devices will test a driver’s saliva and if the sample taken is positive for the presence [...]
Victims need only to prove that the person against whom they are bringing their claim was at least partly to blame for the accident. They don’t have to prove that the other motorist was driving so badly that they committed a road traffic offence." Mr Ryan, who has more than 20 years’ experience representing injured [...]