Connaught Law Blog

Your title plan does not show your legal boundary — it shows a red line on an Ordnance Survey map, drawn under the general…

A voluntary lease extension is whatever you and the freeholder agree — which is its strength and its danger. Since June 2022 the law…

Most estates pass without argument, and the ones that do not tend to fail in predictable places: a will that can be misread, the…

You must be 18 to marry in England and Wales — parental consent no longer creates any exception — while Scotland allows marriage at…

The Charity Worker visa is the UK’s volunteer visa in all but name: up to twelve months of unpaid voluntary work for a licensed…

The adoption requirements in the UK ask two things of you: are you eligible, and can you satisfy the assessment that follows? The eligibility…

Child maintenance is the regular financial contribution the parent who does not live with a child day to day makes towards the child’s living…

A child born in the UK who lives here for their first ten years earns a statutory entitlement to British citizenship — whatever their…

Vacant possession is the seller’s promise that on completion day the property will be empty — of people, of belongings, and of anyone else’s…

Good character is naturalisation’s broadest requirement and its least forgiving: a sentence-based test for convictions, a ten-year lens on immigration conduct, financial probity checks…

A Part 25 application asks the family court for permission to rely on expert evidence — a business valuer, a pension actuary, a psychologist,…

A parent’s drink or drug use only decides a children case when it affects their parenting. Courts distinguish past use from present risk, and…