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Rachel Turner ranked in Chambers and Partners 2017
Rachel Turner, partner and joint head of the Mental Health and Capacity team at Miles & Partners has been ranked in the Chambers and Partners UK 2017 directory. Rachel’s expertise in Court of Protection and particularly health and welfare matters ...
Read more08.11.2016
Archers domestic violence plot reveals real harm of LASPO cuts
Archer’s fans have been gripped for months by the domestic abuse plot culminating with Helen’s criminal trial earlier in the month. While listeners were avidly following Helen and Rob’s storyline, the Serious Crime Act 2015 received royal assent on 3 ...
Read more12.10.2016
Leading city lawyers support World Mental Health Day 2016
Rachel Turner, partner and joint head of mental health law at Miles & Partners in London, explains that World Mental Health Day was initiated by the World Federation Health Organisation and is observed each year to raise awareness of mental ...
Read more10.10.2016
Supreme Court decides important disrepair appeal
Is your flat affected by a leak from an upstairs flat within your block? Or perhaps there are problems within the communal areas of the block where you live that your landlord is refusing to deal with? The Supreme Court ...
Read more20.07.2016
Lou Crisfield wins legal aid lawyer of the year
Lou Crisfield, housing case worker at Miles & Partners, has won Social and Welfare Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2016. Lou, who was presented with her award at a prestigious ceremony on Bishopsgate on 7th July, used to be ...
Read more15.07.2016
Top tips when agreeing to a prenup
Over time and in difficult and emotional circumstances people can change their minds. A pre-nup will help to record the intentions you had in happier times and will show to the court how you intended to separate and on what ...
Read more25.06.2016
Miles & Partners complete London Legal Walk before Netball win
Energetic colleagues at Miles & Partners won one of their first netball matches following the London Legal Walk on Monday 16 May. With help from some friends and old M&P colleagues the M&P ladies have set up their very own ...
Read more08.06.2016
The tale of the quickie divorce
Billie Piper and Lawrence Fox have had a ‘quickie divorce’ – in only 50 seconds they have gone from being married to being divorced, or so the papers say. On days like today I expect my telephone to ring – ...
Read more13.05.2016
Right to rent
The “Right to Rent” provisions came in on Monday this week (1 February 2016). The provisions require landlords to check the immigration status of their prospective tenants (and any adult who will be living with them) before they let out ...
Read more04.02.2016