Jul 14, 2025
💼 From Car Boot Fortune to Courtroom Battle: Why Mediation Matters in Family Inheritance Disputes The unfolding courtroom drama surrounding the £43 million estate of car boot magnate Richard Scott highlights the devastating personal and financial cost of inheritance...
Jul 5, 2025
Why the Harder Road Often Leads to Greater Rewards This weekend I took part in the Delamere parkrun. But it wasn’t the usual forest trail. It was the challenging “B course” – a tougher 5K route that climbs Old Pale Hill not once, but twice. At around 176 metres above...
Jul 5, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
Refusal to Mediate and Part 36 Offers: Lessons from Chassy v Left Shift IT Ltd [2025] EWHC 1701 (KB) In a judgment handed down on 4 July 2025, Bruce Carr KC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) delivered a detailed ruling in the case of Chassy v Left Shift IT Ltd...
Jul 2, 2025
A Costly Inch: Why Boundary Disputes Cry Out for Mediation Imagine spending seven years locked in battle with your neighbour, not over fences or trees, but over a narrow, largely unusable strip of land barely wide enough to walk through. Now imagine that dispute...
