Glen Briers built a £30million sports and street-wear business incorporating brands Lambretta and Vision Streetwear. When he split from Nicola Briers, his wife of 18 years in 2002, the business was turning over £1million a year. When they divorced Mr Briers gave his wife £150,000 to pay off the mortgage and she kept the £700,000…
The recent case of ‘right to die’ policeman Paul Briggs, highlights the need for people of all ages to have in place a Health and Welfare Lasting Power of Attorney. PC Briggs, 43, was involved in a head-on collision on his motorcycle on his way to work for Merseyside Police in July 2015. He suffered several…
A former judge and her husband who forged a dead man’s will in order to obtain two country cottages which they then converted into a £325,000 home were jailed for six months each earlier today. Margaret and Alan Hampshire made it appear as though Martin Blanche had left his house to an elderly cousin of…
The actor Laurence Fox, who earlier this year divorced actress Billie Piper, has split with model Vogue Williams, the ex-wife of former Westlife singer Brian McFadden. This is the actor’s first festive period he spends without his two sons. The actor said, “We’re just really great mates. We have always just been good mates before…
Grammy awards nominated singer Sia, whose songs include Cheap Thrills and Chandelier has announced her divorce from husband Erik Anders Lang. Sia, whose full name is Sia Kate Isobelle Furler married her husband at her home in California in August 2014. Her statement read ‘After much soul searching and consideration we have made the decision…
A farmer has been criticised by a Judge for harassing his neighbours in a right of way dispute. Peter Robinson insisted on driving his tractor at a snail’s pace along a track leading up to his farm in County Durham. He put in more than a dozen speed bumps in a bid to make life…
We acted for a commercial landlord who sued his tenant for unpaid rent and service charges. We successfully obtained a Judgment in the sum of £90,000 and costs following a trial in the County Court. Running a business can be difficult in this today’s economic climate and with the uncertainties following Brexit. It can be…
It has been reported that Kim Kardashian West is considering divorcing her rapper husband Kanye West after her two-and- a-half- year marriage after feeling “trapped” in her relationship. Recent traumatic events are thought to have taken their toll on the marriage which saw Kim Kardashian gagged, bound and held at gunpoint during a robbery in…
A financier’s widow who is battling her stepdaughter over his £18million estate has denied claims she ‘bullied and dominated’ her frail husband. Richard Thornton died in 2013 leaving half his estate to his wife Susie. The other half of the estate went into a trust for the rest of his family, including his three adult…
Robbie Williams, the former Take That singer is in dispute with rock and roll legend neighbour Jimmy Page after the Led Zeppelin founder objected to William’s plans over fears it could damage his nearby Grade-I listed home. Williams bought the £17million property from the family of late film director Michael Winner in December 2013, but…