The office will be closed on Saturday 23 June 2018 for essential maintenance. We will open as usual on Monday 25 June 2018. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Family Fun Day 2018
Making a Will & Lasting Powers of Attorney
Making a Will If you die without making a Will the people who administer your estate (“personal representatives”) and the persons who benefit from your estate (beneficiaries) will be determined, as will the amount such beneficiaries receive, by the Administration of Estates Act 1925. A surviving spouse with children may not get the entirety of…
Farewell Ian
Ian Wessels has been part of our Tassells team since 2002, qualifying as a Solicitor in 2004. As many of you will know, he was the backbone of our Private Client Department. His charm, kind-heartedness and patience towards his clients, particularly the elderly, was much admired. At the end of December, however, we said a…
Congratulations
We are proud to announce that our Yulia Barnes has become a full registered member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists in January 2017. Yulia successfully completed her three year training with the association in 2014 and after being an Associate Member for two years after completing her training she has been…
Happy New Year!
This is the time for thinking about new year resolutions. Have you thought about making a Will this year? You may also think about updating an existing Will. If you do not have a Will, there is a possibility that, after your death, your estate will pass to people you do not wish to…
How “no win no fee agreements” work?
The correct name for a “no win no fee agreement” is a Conditional Fee Agreement (“CFA”). Under such an arrangement, we can only charge you for our time if we win the case for you, so our fees are “conditional” upon success. We sometimes offer a CFA in inheritance disputes. If we take your case…
Christmas 2016
Season’s greetings for a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year from all of us at Tassells. The office will close at 5.30pm on Thursday 22nd December 2016 and will re-open at 9am on Wednesday 28th December 2016, finishing at 5.30 on 30th December 2016, returning at 9am on 3rd January 2017. May we take this opportunity to thank all…
University Students and Claims for ‘Negligent Teaching’
With the advent of fees for university tuition comes an increasing recognition that teaching institutions owe a duty to provide services to an acceptable standard. Where such a duty is owed a lawsuit might follow if things go badly wrong. In a recent case a history student has sued the University of Oxford. He was awarded a…