Pity poor Philip Hammond. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he is charged with ensuring the UK remains financially solvent during a time when many sense the country is about to commit economic suicide in the form of Brexit, however he has faced a battering in recent weeks. Hammond infuriated Euro-sceptic MPs in the Conservative Party […]
The world has changed exponentially in the past 20 years. It is not only property, businesses, and jewellery that make up possessions in an estate – digital assets can also make up a significant part of a person’s’s estate. Clients are increasingly requiring digital assets to be included in their Will. However, the increase in […]
The collapse of the outsourcing giant, Carillion, is the second big business failure, following Monarch Airlines, which has impacted thousands of employees, customers, and suppliers in the last three months[1]. Latest estimates state around 30,000 businesses are owed around £1 billion in unpaid costs, and many are expected to go under themselves due to being […]
It is impossible for me to explain the trauma suffered by a parent who has experienced a stillbirth. Not only do the parents have to come to terms with the fact their baby has died, but the mother must also go through psychiatric injury and the agony of an induced labour to deliver her lost […]
Channel 4 News ran a story this week on Dr Helen Webberley, a GP in North Wales who runs a private clinic for trans-gender patients. Interestingly, no patients were seen sitting physically in her surgery during the report, instead, she consulted via Skype. Dr Webberley set up her Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) – which is […]
The register of people with significant control (the “PSC register”) was introduced by the British government in April 2016. It was designed, amid concerns of corporate transparency, to ensure that individuals who ultimately own and/or control a company (i.e. behind all the corporate layers) are identified, and their details are made public. Whilst the UK […]
People who have read Ayn Rand’s classic ode to capitalism Atlas Shrugged tend to fall into two camps – those who think it is a prediction of dystopian horror that the world could face if corporations are not kept under control, and those who believe it is a sacred treatise that could save the world […]
Buying luxury timepieces to sell it for a profit at some point in the future is undoubtedly a smart investment. And fortunately, the demand for high-end watches has never been greater. In 2016, Britain was the eighth largest market worldwide for luxury watches[1]. Since 2010, the value of Swiss watch exports sent to the UK […]
Many people dream of purchasing a sparkling new-build home, free from any trace of the lives of previous occupants. Buying a new-build means that nothing has been touched by anyone except builders and it can be designed and finished to your specification. There are many advantages to buying a new-build home; for example, there are […]
