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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
Infant returned after injuries caused by vitamin D deficiency
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 ...
Read more05.07.2016
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
Return to work a realistic prospect?
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 ...
Read more28.01.2016
Giving children a voice in family courts
We always imagine that once a case has gone to court that, like it or not, there will ultimately be a decision which must be upheld. In fact, that’s not always true, proven by this long-running case in which there ...
Read more28.10.2015