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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust v CG (by their litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) & Anor

Private ClientThe Court of Protection (Tier 3 cases)7 Aug 2026[2026] EWCOP 37 (T3)

CG is a 36 year old woman with a chronic severe psychiatric illness, principally anorexia nervosa, complicated by emotionally unstable personality disorder and features consistent with complex trauma. She has undergone repeated…

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College v QLaw Legal Services Limited

Private ClientThe England and Wales High Court (Senior Courts Costs Office)4 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 2090 (SCCO)

The claimant, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is the residuary beneficiary of the estate of Ms Margaret Anne Selby, who died on 20 November 2022 leaving a will dated 12 March 2020. By that will Ms Selby appointed as her…

(1)Arthur Frederick Golding (2)Julia Anne Middleton (executors of the will of Dennis Golding deceased) v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Tax LawFirst-tier Tribunal (Tax)18 May 2011[2011] UKFTT 351 (TC)Added 6 Aug 2026

Dennis Golding died on 4 March 2007 aged 81, owning Blue Gates Farm at Brookhay Lane, Whittington, Lichfield, Staffordshire, comprising a three-bedroom listed farmhouse, adjacent agricultural buildings and 16.29 acres of land…

Peter Phillips, Stacey Phillips and Janice Phillips The Executors of Rhoda Phillips Deceased v Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs

Tax LawSpecial Commissioners of Income Tax26 Jul 2006Added 6 Aug 2026

Mr Philip Phillips, a valuer and estate agent, began in business in the 1950s and by his death on 22 March 2000 owned shares in eight related family companies, among them P P Investments Limited, an unquoted company established…