Legal

MP Don Foster announced yesterday that property details won't have to include the full front page of an EPC after all.

Top-drawer law firm Blake Lapthorn (the ones that acted for Christian Candy on his recent acquisition of Gordon House in Chelsea) has strengthened its Property Litigation team with the appointment of…

Yesterday's Autumn Statement delivered by Chancellor George Osborne did not, in fact, contain much detail on the Government's tax proposals, meaning the publication of the draft Finance Bill next week…

The current flood of floods across the UK is highlighting just how close next June's expiry of the Government's Statement of Principles (SoP) is, and, after this week's talks about a publicly-funded backstop…

The Guardian has named a batch of "secret" property barons who it claims own UK properties through offshore firms based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).

Sarah Conway will join boutique law firm Maurice Turnor Gardner as a partner in its residential property practice in January.

The Serious Fraud Office has been ordered to pay property barons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz (significant) legal costs, following the collapse of a case against them earlier this year.

London-based law firm Winckworth Sherwood has added to its specialist enfranchisement and residential property team with the appointment of Syeda Malik, who joins from Glinert Davis LLP.

Mishcon de Reya's Richard Anyamene and Adam Gross on how to avoid being another victim of property fraud...

An architecture and interior design practice is apparently being sued for £300,000 after a project at One Hyde Park allegedly over-ran by ten months.

The Lawyer magazine has revealed the top 10 property law firms in the UK;

New EU succession rules simplify making a will for HNWs with property in different countries, says Jenny Wilson-Smith of Boodle Hatfield. ***