MOTORING lawyer Oliver Gardner is urging drivers that are thinking of letting others taking the rap to avoid points on their licences to think again. The emerging allegations that Chris Huhne, Energy and Climate Change Secretary, had asked someone else to take the blame for a driving offence, back in 2003, to avoid points on…
New government proposals by the transport secretary mark a very dangerous development for the role of the courts in protecting citizens’ rights in motoring law cases.
FAMILY Lawyer Neil Grunfeld is urging cohabiting couples to address their property and financial affairs in the light of a landmark case being heard in The Supreme Court. The head of family law at Manchester based Howards Solicitors is warning couples to avoid possible financial and emotional distress by considering Declarations of Trust and cohabitation…
The Bribery Act needs significant reworking according to white-collar criminal solicitor Oliver Gardner. Gardner, managing partner at Howards Solicitors, believes that the Act is clumsy and ill defined in planning and will prove controversial in implementation as it lacks concrete guidance. The Bribery Act aims to attract inward investment to the UK by routing out…
NEW PARENTING ARRANGEMENTS should be welcomed but with some reservation argues family lawyer Neil Grunfeld. Grunfeld believes Government recommendations concerning grandparents’ access to grandchildren in the event of a divorce or separation are very much to be applauded, although they have been some time in coming. The New Parenting Agreements will explicitly set out contact…
