If someone promises another person that they will give them an interest in land or property, and the person to whom the promise was made relies on that promise to their detriment, the courts will – if the circumstances justify ...

Case update – RE: C (Children) [2016] EWFC B45 (4 February 2016) Care professionals are advised to proceed with caution when children present with metaphyseal fractures, particularly where there may be a risk of vitamin D deficiency. Amanda Dench, founding ...

Samin v Westminster City Council [2016] UKSC 1 Miles and Partners represented Mr Samin in his attempt to retain his status as a “worker” under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006. Mr Samin, an Austrian national since 1993 after ...

R (AM) v London Borough of Havering and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets [2015] EWHC 1004 (Admin) Representing our client (AM), Lou Crisfield has been hailed a ‘real hero’ in a case which is likely to have widespread application ...

Floyd Porter achieved a successful outcome when he acted for Norman Davies against a local authority which resorted to deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) to prevent Norman’s partner Peggy Ross from joining him on a cruise they had planned together. ...

When a woman seeking divorce signed an agreement without legal advice, the Miles & Partners team stepped in to challenge the agreement and achieve a fair settlement which has changed our client’s life. Our client married her second husband in ...

In a protracted divorce case and separate care proceedings, the Miles & Partners team secured a favourable financial settlement for our client in the face of frustrating delays and conflicting claims by his former wife. In 2010, our lawyers were ...

In a judgment, which we hope will benefit anyone caught in a dispute between housing authorities, Mr Justice Cobb condemned the ‘shameful’ behaviour of the two London authorities in the case of R (AM) v London Borough of Havering and ...

Case ref: [2014] EWCOP 53 When a mother with learning difficulties and her four children were taken into the care of the State, the case came before the Court of Protection to decide issues of residence, care and contact with ...