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On Friday 27 March 2020, our founder Florence Brocklesby took part in a Coronavirus Legal Q&A webinar hosted by Stephenson Law. The webinar covered a range of urgent legal issues arising from the current emergency, including the government’s Job Retention and Self-Employment Income Support Schemes, rights and obligations of landlords and tenants and the impact

A safe pair of hands: Bellevue Law on lower-cost, high-quality dispute resolution. Bellevue Law’s founder Florence Brocklesby and colleagues Oliver Stokes and Alexandra Key talk about the firm’s litigation practice and working in partnership with larger firms for the benefit of their clients and contacts. We regularly receive referrals of dispute resolution matters from lawyers

According to recent research, over three million opposite-sex couples live together in the UK.  They are also the fastest-growing household group in Britain. Yet they are offered none of the same tax reliefs as married couples or same-sex civil partners. But what about ‘common law marriage’ – does that offer some protection? Sadly, though the

If you’ve already made a will, you might well be thinking ‘job done’ – after all, approximately 60% of people in the UK don’t have one. But if there’s been a big change in your life, or if you haven’t revisited your will for several years, it might be time to make a new one.