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How the pandemic is changing relationships - Rebecca Cockcroft for The Telegraph

Commentary by Rebecca Cockcroft, Consultant and Co-Head of the leading Family department at Payne Hicks Beach in which she comments on how the covid-19 pandemic is changing ...

How the pandemic is changing relationships - Rebecca Cockcroft for The Telegraph

10 July 2020
Commentary by Rebecca Cockcroft, Consultant and Co-Head of the leading Family department at Payne Hicks Beach in which she comments on how the covid-19 pandemic is changing ...

The challenges of international surrogacy arrangements in the climate of Covid-19 - Sarah Williams for Bio News

07 July 2020
Article by Sarah Williams, Legal Director and top family solicitor at Payne Hicks Beach on the challenges of international surrogacy arrangements in the climate of Covid-19, first ...

Hong Kong: Dominic Raab offers citizenship rights to 2.9 million British nationals with commentary from Kathryn Bradbury

02 July 2020
Commentary by Kathryn Bradbury, Partner and Head of Citizenship & Immigration department, on Dominic Raab's offer of British citizenship to 2.9 million people living in Hong ...

Don’t open the floodgates to a nuisance claim

02 July 2020
Article by Simon Blackburn, Partner and Head of Landed Estates and Agriculture and Venetia Taylor, Associate and landed estates and agriculture specialist lawyer in the Property ...

It’s The Final Countdown (Again): Brexit and Family by Emily Foy

01 July 2020
The United Kingdom formally left the European Union on 31 January 2020. The UK is now is a transition period which is due to last until 31 December 2020, to allow negotiations to ...

What’s in the government’s code of practice for landlords and business tenants

30 June 2020
Commentary by Scott Goldstein, Partner in the Dispute Resolution department and property litigation specialist at Payne Hicks Beach in the article which discusses ...

Commentary by Simon Beccle, Partner in the Family Department and Solicitor for Tini Owens, on the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020

29 June 2020
On 25 June 2020 the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill passed the remaining procedural stages in Parliament and received the Royal Assent to become the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020. The ...

Service charge challenge serves as a warning

29 June 2020
Article by Scott Goldstein, Partner in the Dispute Resolution department and property litigation specialist at Payne Hicks Beach in which he looks at the ...

The economic fallout of Covid-19 - what happens when I cannot continue to meet maintenance payments

26 June 2020
Article by Rebecca Cockcroft, Consultant and Co-Head of the Family department at Payne Hicks Beach in which she discusses the economic fallout of Covid-19 and addresses the question " ...