Connaught Law Blog

Are prenuptial agreements legally binding in the UK? Not automatically — but since Radmacher v Granatino the courts will normally hold a couple to…

Spousal maintenance after divorce is neither automatic nor for life by default — two myths that cause equal and opposite panic. It exists for…

Most partner applications have to meet a £29,000 minimum income requirement. A small group does not: where the sponsoring partner receives a specified disability…

A TOC — transfer of conditions — moves UK immigration permission out of an old, expired or full passport and into the modern system:…

Indefinite leave to remain granted decades ago often lives in the wrong place — an ink stamp in an expired passport, a vignette, a…

In Hirachand v Hirachand the Supreme Court closed the “back door” on litigation funding in inheritance disputes: a conditional fee agreement success fee cannot…

Howe v Howe is the 2025 decision in which an estranged adult daughter — described in her father’s will file as “lazy” and “useless”…

No-fault divorce has been the only way to divorce in England and Wales since 6 April 2022: you state the marriage has irretrievably broken…

Collective enfranchisement lets the leaseholders of a block compel the freeholder to sell them the building — half the flats participating, a section 13…

Every lease extension is one of two bargains. The statutory route is compulsion on fixed terms: 90 extra years, peppercorn rent, price argued to…

Trinidad and Tobago nationals have needed a visa to visit the UK since 12 March 2025, when decades of visa-free travel ended with same-day…

The statutory lease extension gives a qualifying flat owner 90 extra years at a peppercorn ground rent, whether the freeholder likes it or not…