Build, Build, Build – but not to Flood, Flood, Flood!
I have made my views on the folly of building more homes in floodplains very clear for many years now….
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Landmark’s best commercial report just got better!
Before the significant and unfortunate disruption of lockdown, Landmark made the important decision to decommission one of their core environmental…
The 60 second interview with Professor Lesley King
Q1: What made you decide on the Wills & Probate sector for your career path? I’m afraid it was not…
Remote signing and witnessing of Wills
I recently wrote a piece concerning the difficulties encountered in the signing and witnessing of Wills during a pandemic (‘Dealing…
Property Flood Resilience
I look on Flood Risk Management as a jigsaw of many pieces, all working together to reduce the impact a…
The Challenges of dealing with online and digital assets in succession planning
More and more parts of our lives are being conducted online. 20, or even just 10, years ago it would…
The 60 second interview with Angus Evers
One of our regular features will be a quick interview with someone from within or outside of Landmark. We thought…
SDLT Announcement – a welcome ‘holiday’
Law Firms’ Conveyancing Departments will have welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement last week of a Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday of…
Signing and witnessing Wills in the age of Social Distancing
In recent weeks, a hot topic of conversation between Private Client lawyers has been that of dealing with the signing…
Preventing the proverbial pitfalls: making it clear for Personal Representatives
As we know, the task of acting as an Executor of a Will or Administrator of an intestate estate can…
Pecuniary Legacies – Avoiding Abatement
What is abatement? Abatement is what happens when the assets in an estate on death are insufficient to match the…
Lockdown And Data Security – Working From Home
We have all had to adjust to new ways of working during the current pandemic. Most of us have been…