Get ready for your close-up! We live in a selfie-obsessed Instagram/Facebook/tweeting world where everyone, from newborns to people in their 90s are being snapped and ‘papped’ for the internet. Being influenced by celebrities is nothing new and neither is wanting to look older if you’re a teen or trying to hold back the years as…
A number of organisations have established themselves as representatives for the rights of fathers, whether divorced or separated from their families, to ensure that they get regular access to their children. One such body, Families Need Fathers, was set up to help dads who were facing limited child access to get the support and advice…
With only five weeks to go before a hike in stamp duty for buy to let property purchases there has been a massive increase in mortgage lending, the highest level in nine years, for buyers who want to get in before the 3% rise. Harshinder Hundal, a property legal specialist at the award winning and…
On the face of it, a do-it-yourself Will sounds like a good prospect. It’s cheap and easily bought in a shop like WH Smiths or on the internet. A ‘Last Will and Testament’ kit, as it is known, can cost as little as £20, which, if compared with the minimum cost you are likely to…
Leading regional law firm Pictons, an award winning company with offices in Luton, Milton Keynes and Tring, recently joined in the celebrations of Polish Day in Luton which took place at the Luton Irish Forum and was organised by Polonia, the Polish Community Group and the Polish British Integration Centre. Everyone enjoyed lots of…
A young mum of 34 was left in dire financial straights when her partner and the father of her three children died of cancer. With the loss of her late partner’s substantial £60,000 salary and as they were unmarried, she was unable to claim thousands of pounds in government support. Greer Woolley, a Wills Trust…
As the most romantic day of the year approaches, many couples are not only looking forward to a grand night out but also planning to take their relationships forward, whether that’s moving in together or even making the ultimate romantic gesture – a wedding proposal with a bright and shiny engagement ring. Nobody would want…
The owners of the John O’Gaunt pub in Hungerford, the Innformal Pub Company, are being prosecuted in a tribunal by the pub’s former landlady, Rachel Skiffington, who claims she was sacked for becoming pregnant and was told by her bosses that they ‘didn’t want someone fat, wobbly and useless behind the bar’. Rachel and her…
A recent court case where a building firm, Kent Blaxill, was prosecuted over an accident in their car park where a customer suffered a ‘serious head injury’ has brought into focus the importance of companies paying the utmost attention to ensuring that proper health and safety measures are in place to protect their staff, customers…
Separation and subsequent divorces are always especially challenging where children are involved. Sorting out child maintenance issues on the parties’ initial separation is not always as straight forward as simply applying to the Child Maintenance Service. Danielle Messenger, a Family Law Specialist at award winning leading law firm Pictons says “At Pictons we give consideration…