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No Success Fees Charged for Personal Injury Claims

Most solicitors acting for clients under a Conditional Fee Agreement (no win, no fee) will do so on the basis that if the claim succeeds, the solicitors will take up to 25% of the settlement money as a ‘success fee’.  The success fee reflects…

Fishing News – WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A PERSONAL INJURY OCCURS ON BOARD? Part 3

Fishing News has been the voice of the fishing industry since 1913, bringing the latest news and features about the UK and Irish commercial fishing to the industry.  Bartons Marine Department were delighted to be invited to write a number of…

Fishing News – WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A PERSONAL INJURY OCCURS ON BOARD? Part 2

Fishing News has been the voice of the fishing industry since 1913, bringing the latest news and features about the UK and Irish commercial fishing to the industry.  Bartons Marine Department were delighted to be invited to write a number of…

Fishing News – WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A PERSONAL INJURY OCCURS ON BOARD? Part 1

Fishing News has been the voice of the fishing industry since 1913, bringing the latest news and features about the UK and Irish commercial fishing to the industry.  Bartons Marine Department were delighted to be invited to write a number of…

Fishing News Article – RIGHT TO COMPLAIN – When to make a complaint against a Marine Authority

Fishing News has been the voice of the fishing industry since 1913, bringing the latest news and features about the UK and Irish commercial fishing to the industry.  Bartons Marine Department were delighted to be invited to write a number of…

Fishing News Article – Drug and Alcohol Policy

Fishing News has been the voice of the fishing industry since 1913, bringing the latest news and features about the UK and Irish commercial fishing to the industry.  Bartons Marine Department were delighted to be invited to write a number of…

Work Accidents at Sea – An Introduction for Presonal Injury Lawyers Webinar

Jo Pummery, head of our Marine Department, will be presenting a webinar on behalf of MBL, providing participants with an introduction to dealing with work accidents which occur at sea, aimed at personal injury lawyers.  The webinar will be…

Unregistered Land

About 15% of land in England and Wales remains unregistered. Much of this relates to landed estates and vast tracts of countryside but there are still significant pockets of unregistered title even in urban areas. Registration of land first…

Let Picasso Pay

The family of Lee Kun-hee, the late chairman of Samsung Electronics, are reportedly donating 23,000 works of art to South Korean Museums in order to reduce his estate’s $10.8bn inheritance tax bill. The inheritance tax liability (which equates…

We are ready – are you?

Earlier this month Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed speculation and extended the stamp duty holiday, which had been due to end on 31 March 2021, by three months in an attempt to mitigate the impact of the most recent coronavirus lockdown. The…

Stamp Duty Land Tax Surcharge for Overseas Buyers

What is the new surcharge? New rules introduced by the UK Government mean that overseas buyers of property in the UK will be required to pay an additional 2% tax on top of the current residential SDLT rates. The surcharge is applied on top…

Rentcharge Redemption

Rentcharges are found commonly in Bristol, Bath and other cities and originated in the early part of the 19th century or indeed earlier and were a means for builders to develop land without paying a premium to the owner of the Land. Landowners…