Promotion Announcements
Our promotions that have been finalised for April 1 – full details below: Thank you all to those who have been involved in supporting our colleagues through the processes and for the partners that interviewed for the Senior Associate and Trainee roles. Senior Associate promotions Nicola Alton Ben Menahem Zoe Pearse Victoria Spencer Steffan Taylor […]
Helen Crossland features in The Times
On 19 March 2025, the UK Government began a consultation exploring required ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for businesses with more than 250 employees. Employment partner Helen Crossland features in The Times discussing what such pay gap reporting could mean for employers should it be introduced. Helen explores potential challenges businesses could face in […]
How the Family Home is Treated in a Divorce
UK media has recently covered the news that Diane Culligan, the founder of the UK women’s national football team, the Lionesses, “has triumphed in a divorce row involving a £7 million home in north London.” (The Times). Mr Justice MacDonald ordered that Mr and Ms Culligan should be awarded about £13.7 million each in assets, […]
Helen Crossland features in Raconteur
On 19 March 2025, the UK Government began a consultation exploring required ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for businesses with more than 250 employees, in an effort to reduce pay disparities in the workplace. Employment partner Helen Crossland features in Raconteur discussing what such pay gap reporting could mean for employers should it be introduced. […]
London law firms Seddons and GSC Solicitors to merge, creating full-service law firm
The merger will create a full-service law firm of over 150 people. On completion, the merged firm will be known as Seddons GSC LLP, and will move into Seddons’ expanded London premises. Seddons is a 31-partner law firm based in Fitzrovia, with particular expertise in real estate, corporate, dispute resolution, private client and family law. […]
It’s not just what it says on the tin – the case of Norton v Gardner
From 1988 – 2019, Ms Norton and Rex Gardner were in an on-off relationship and had two children together. In 1998, they bought a property – ‘Blindman’s Lane’ – in joint names, the purchase price being funded principally by a joint mortgage. The deposit was a joint gift from Mr Gardner’s father and the final […]
John Midgley Features in Property Wire
John Midgley, Property Disputes Partner and Head of the Specialist Leasehold Enfranchisement team, was quoted in Property Wire this week in an expert analysis of the news that the government is planning to ban the sale of leasehold flats in England and Wales. He shared his thoughts on how the transition to commonhold could work, how […]
Leasehold Reform Update
From 3 March 2025, assuming no parliamentary problems, the threshold enabling mixed use buildings to be susceptible to a right to manage (RTM) claim increases from 25% to 50% for non-residential use. This can bring more buildings within the scope of RTM. In addition, from the above date, the RTM Co or its members will […]
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (the “Bill”) was presented to Parliament on 16 October 2024. The Bill seeks to enable adults who are terminally ill with 6 months of their life remaining, to request and receive assistance to end their own lives. The Bill is currently at the Committee Stage in the […]
Cara Ramprakash features in TL4’s HNW Divorce Magazine
ALIENATING BEHAVIOURS V DOMESTIC ABUSE The term Parental Alienation is terminology many family lawyers are used to. Recent guidance published by the Family Justice Council asserts that this should now be referred to as alienating behaviours. CAFCASS defines alienating behaviour as ‘’the unjustified resistance or hostility from a child towards one parent as a result […]