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A child or young person will have an EHCP because their special education needs ( SEN ) call for special educational provision to be made in accordance with an EHCP. The local authority responsible for providing provision set out in an EHCP will be the one...
The Birkett Long Divorce and Family Team are supporting Resolution Awareness Week 2023, which runs from 27 November to 1 December 2023. What is this week about? This annual campaign was initiated by Resolution – a community of over 6,500...
Running a livery yard can be enjoyable and stressful at the same time, from trying to meet the individual needs of liveries to scheduling field rotations to keeping on top of business paperwork. One thing that should be manageable for a livery yard owner is...
The topic of pre-and post-nuptial agreements used to be quite taboo and considered ‘anti-family.’ What a strange idea. I accept that, on the face of it, they may seem unromantic, but I consider them to be quite the opposite of being anti-family....
At the start of this month, there was some welcomed news for insolvency practitioners who act as administrators. The Supreme Court handed down judgment in R (on the application of Palmer) v Northern Derbyshire Magistrates Court and Another [2023] UKSC 3013...
The case of Agnew v Chief Constable of Northern Ireland has been ongoing since 2018. It is one of many cases about holiday pay. Agnew concerns a significant number of claims by police and civilian staff for the payment of holiday pay correctly calculated...
How is the family business treated in divorce? Alongside property, pensions, and investments, the family business can often form a substantial part of a high net worth couple’s assets. Indeed, the business may have been the source of the other...
Protect Your Stepfamily's Financial Future If you are a parent and your child has remarried and their new partner has children already from a previous marriage or relationship, now is a good time to consider whether or not you should update your...
On 12 October 2023, the UK government published a new regulation governing data transfers between the UK and the US. This regulation is known as the Data Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1028). Background The...
What is Child Maintenance? Child maintenance is the regular payment made by a non-resident parent to the person or parent with care of the child to help pay for the child’s everyday living costs, for example, food, clothes, housing, and so on....
The Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023 received royal assent on 18 September 2023. This new legislation proposes to amend the Pensions Act 2008 by allowing for the automatic enrolment regime to be extended. Under the new law, the...
An Employment Tribunal awarded a transgender woman £25,000 in a sex discrimination case after, among other things, her employer took two years to change her name on its systems. To ‘deadname’ someone is to continue to call a transgender...
Protect Your Inheritance in Blended Families It is becoming increasingly common for two families to merge together, as nuclear families are becoming a thing of the past. Often, clients in blended families put off putting in place a will as they do not...
On divorce, couples have financial claims against one another for property, lump sums, maintenance, and pensions. The greater the wealth, the larger those potential claims will be. There are several ways to potentially safeguard assets in a high net...
Protect Your Assets Through Conversation Often, it is seen as taboo to talk about what inheritance you are likely to receive, as it is human nature to avoid uncomfortable situations. Parents are sometimes oversharers when it comes to talking about...
It is compulsory to register property within England and Wales at HM Land Registry where such property is being purchased, leased (where the lease term is for more than 7 years or the lease term is to take effect more than 3 months from the lease date),...
Proposed amendments to the Equality Act 2010 have been progressing through Parliament. Under the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill, the following changes are anticipated: A slightly varied defence for employers is expected to be...
Some properties, mainly blocks of flats, have been built that are not fit for habitation. Defective cladding is a prime example of an issue that causes this and has been in the spotlight since the Grenfell Tower disaster. Many blocks of flats have had the...
With the introduction of digital divorces, it is now even easier to formalise your separation. A digital divorce is where all stages of the divorce are dealt with online. On some occasions, even the hearing can take place via video call. This means that you...
According to the latest family court statistics published in March 2023, private law cases with legal representation took, on average, longer to be concluded. The statistics show that in general, between October and December 2022, private law cases where...
