Issue: December 2024/January 2025

TA6 changes – delayed again

December 2024/January 2025 | Conveyancing

Property practitioners will be aware of the furore created by the Law Society’s proposed update of the Property Information Form to the 5th edition. This update incorporates the material information requirements which estate agents are supposed to have been advertising since November 2023. The Law Society told CQS firms that using the updated form would …

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Care proceedings – fresh evidence

December 2024/January 2025 | Family

An expert report obtained after a final hearing was not reliable or procedurally acceptable and was not permitted as fresh evidence on appeal. Care and placement orders were made in respect of a baby girl (T) whose parents had histories of alcohol problems. F also had criminal convictions. Two older children were living with grandparents …

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HMLR – address change

December 2024/January 2025 | Conveyancing

Note that from 2 December 2024 HMLR is changing its address. This might not seem that significant as most firms will use the portal but remember that HMLR will require original deeds to be sent to it for first registrations from 1 October 2024 (see our November edition (p8)). So, the HMLR postal address will …

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Child abduction – Hague Convention; consent

December 2024/January 2025 | Family

Where a child is removed from a jurisdiction by one parent with the other’s consent, proceedings under the Hague Convention will likely fail. The question in this case was whether F had in fact consented to M removing the children to the UK from the US. The parties had five children. The youngest born was …

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