TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY IN ADVERSITY: PLAN FOR SUCCESSION NOW
In a recent survey I conducted of people sitting near me in the pub on a Friday evening, in answer to the question “what do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?” many people felt that it...
View ArticleA LEGAL SAFEGUARD WITH ENDURING APPEAL
The hardship and suffering faced by the loved ones of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease were brought into sharp focus by the recent Prime Time Investigates and Frontline television programmes...
View ArticleGEOFFREY BOYCOTT’S JOINT TENANT WAS A TENANT IN COMMON
Famously plain speaking Yorkshire man and former international English cricketer, Geoffrey Boycott ran into a spot of bother in the High Court in London recently on the important distinction between...
View ArticleWhen do you expect to have the kids off your back?
When do you think you’ll have fulfilled your financial responsibility to your kids? When they finish college, when they finally move their stuff out of your garage? How about 66? In a decision of the...
View ArticleWills and the Two for One Pitta Bread Combo
A good client of mine forwarded me an e-mail the other day with the message “this must be the Ryanair model, bums on seats”. Well, I’ll come back to the Ryanair model another day but the message that...
View ArticleThe Strange Places Words Can Take You…
Tomorrow is my first-born’s 11th birthday. And on this day every year for the last decade or so, I have found myself wondering on my way home what on earth my wife and I did with our time in the period...
View ArticleWhat I Got Up To At The Weekend (A Confession)
I have to come clean with you. I chopped up four New Zealanders and buried them at the bottom of my garden. I don’t know what came over me, I just snapped. All that winning the rugby ever time, kiwi...
View ArticleHow Getting One Word Wrong Cost Some Cat €500K
I’ve been on about words a lot this week. And it just so happened that a story during the course of it demonstrated the importance of getting each one right. A lady died in October 2011 and by her will...
View ArticleWhen Price is the Last Thing You Want to be Worrying About
You might recall a little while back I mentioned how I read that the one thing Neil Armstrong worried about on his trip to the moon was that the contract to build the Apollo 11 had gone to the lowest...
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