The government is planning the cut the cost of some new homes by nearly a third to help first-time buyers on to the property ladder. The First Homes scheme will lower deposit and mortgage requirements for local first-time buyers in England. It’s hoped that people will be able to buy a home in their area,
Thousands of Muslim couples are thought to be taking part in Islamic wedding ceremonies each year in the UK without realising that their marriage may not be officially recognised under the law. This can have serious consequences if they later wish to divorce because they may find the courts refuse to accept they were ever
The Employment Tribunal has ruled that a managing director was unfairly dismissed after his colleagues accepted a resignation letter he wrote ‘in the heat of the moment’. The case involved Robert Rae, who was managing director of Wellhead Electrical Supplies. Rae and other directors of the company had spent months discussing salary increases for their
A property company has lost its appeal against a tribunal ruling that it had failed to correctly calculate the level of service charges payable by leaseholders. The case involved a mixed commercial and residential development owned by Avon Ground Rents Ltd. The leaseholders were contractually obliged to contribute through a service charge to the cost
A wine merchant has been disqualified from running a company for 15 years and ordered to repay £500,000 to his company’s creditors. Kevin William Eagling was a director of Noble Vintners Ltd, which entered creditors’ voluntary liquidation in June 2017 with an estimated deficiency of more than £1.6 million. A liquidator was appointed to wind-up
A tenant has lost his appeal to increase the compensation offered by the landlord for noise and disturbance caused by refurbishment work. The tenant was a dentist. In 2010 he had purchased a practice and had taken over the lease of its premises, which had a rent of £14,500 per annum. The landlord began works
A trainee highway inspector has won her case of constructive unfair dismissal after her manager moved her to his site so that he could pursue a romantic relationship with her. Kim Beaney began working as a driver and a trainee highway inspector for Highways England in April 2017. The interviewer who gave her the job
A woman has been ordered to pay rent for the time she spent living in the house she shared with her partner after he died without making a will. The partner had been married in the 1980s and had two children. He later began a relationship with the woman involved in this case. They had
A judge had been wrong to order that a wife should pay rent to her former husband after she continued living in the marital home following their divorce. That was the decision of the High Court in a case involving banker Kerim Derhalli and Jayne Richardson Derhalli. Mr Derhalli sued his ex-wife for £500,000, claiming
The Forces Help to Buy scheme, designed to help military personnel get on the housing ladder, has been extended until the end of 2022. The scheme has lent £280m to more than 18,000 armed forces applicants since its introduction in 2014. It allows military personnel to borrow a deposit of up to half of their