‘Money for lawyers’ triggers jump
The number of people returning to the courts to boost their divorce settlements doubled last year – partly because there is more money around to spend on lawyers, according to new data.
Court orders council to rehouse family
Jayesh Kunwardia, 41, social housing and property litigation partner at London firm Hodge Jones & Allen. Why is he in the news? He acted for a mother of five children, including twins, in her Supreme Court appeal against a local authority’s decision to make her homeless. Westminster Council made Titina Nzolameso homeless after she declined to move with her family from London to Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. The council put her children in care homes. Nzolameso argued that the council had not examined all [...]