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Featured news 18 Jul 2024 Boodle Hatfield attains top band status across core categories in Chambers High Net Worth guide 2024

In the newly published Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth (HNW) guide 2024, Boodle Hatfield achieves five 'leading' band one rankings affirming its position as one of London's leading Private Wealth law firms. The firm maintained four of its...

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11 Aug 2020 A new planning use class

Regulations published in July 2020 include provisions that will give greater flexibility to property owners and occupiers to change the use of a property.
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07 Aug 2020 Septic tanks: new general binding rules

The new rules on septic tanks have been little publicised, but could impact on the sale price of rural property, suggests Alice Jenkins.
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06 Aug 2020 Boodle Hatfield advises on one of the first loans from Government’s Coronavirus Future Fund

Boodle Hatfield, the leading private wealth law firm, has advised on one of the first successful applications.
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03 Aug 2020 How can commercial landlords adapt their properties to meet the demand for cycling facilities, such as bicycle storage?

With those returning to their offices post lockdown keen to avoid public transport…
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03 Aug 2020 Dill in the Supreme Court: What happens when a listed building is not a building?

Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of a landowner who sold two 18th century urns…
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03 Aug 2020 Quick guide to Looming end of LIBOR

With the Bank of England’s announcement that it will publish the SONIA compounded index from 3 August 2020, for borrowers, lenders and market participants it is time to act…
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26 Jul 2020 Families moving in together in lockdown risk triggering inheritance tax bills

Elderly people who have moved back into a property during lockdown that they have previously gifted to family members…
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27 Jul 2020 Making a Will during the Covid-19 pandemic

Advances in technology have been invaluable during the lockdown brought about by coronavirus but, until recently, making a Will could not be done digitally.
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23 Jul 2020 Law Commission proposals to transform the future of home ownership

The Law Commission has published three reports setting out significant recommendations.
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17 Jul 2020 Government needs to reintroduce indexation relief if it raises CGT rates

Plans to review Capital Gains Tax (CGT) have raised speculation that headline rates may be increased later this year.
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17 Jul 2020 Inheritance disputes rise as families go to war over estates

Number of contested wills at an all-time high as rising house prices and complex family structures drive competing claims.
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10 Jul 2020 Are you flexi furlough ready? 10 issues for employers to consider

It is estimated that the furlough scheme is currently subsidising the wages of approximately 9 million employees.
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10 Jul 2020 The Office Post-COVID: Death or Evolution?

The death of the office has been announced many times. Its funeral rites are being read again.
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10 Jul 2020 Government incentives needed now for senior living investment

The Government needs to act now to include senior living development in the National Infrastructure Strategy.
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10 Jul 2020 Will coronavirus mark a shift towards turnover rents?

Traditionally commercial tenants pay an agreed amount to their landlords by way of rent.
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08 Jul 2020 Chancellor’s Summer Statement 2020 – SDLT Update

Today Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his plan for the second phase of the UK’s economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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06 Jul 2020 Excluded property trusts

Changes to EPTs will shortly be enacted in Finance Bill 2020.
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06 Jul 2020 Henkes v HMRC [2020] UKFTT 159 (TC) – a recent domicile case

A recent First-tier Tribunal (FTT) examined the extent and time at which a tribunal can make a binding decision.
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06 Jul 2020 TRS updating facility

As previously reported the trust registration service (TRS) is due to change, but there is still no news on how or when.
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06 Jul 2020 GDPR: Trustees & PRs

‘GDPR’ is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which has been in force in the UK for just over two years.