A landlord was fined £20,000 after admitting he put the lives of five residents at risk. Residents became trapped upstairs during a fire in Worthing last year, weeks after their landlord was told their fire alarm did not work. The judge said Terry Millis, 62, had a ‘high level’ of culpability and fined him £20,000
An “industrial scale” £4.6 million benefit fraud has been targeted by police in Glasgow. Police officers have been working with the Department for Work and Pensions and Home Office Immigration Enforcement for almost a year in an investigation to trace an organised crime gang suspected of defrauding the benefits system of about £4.6m. A number
A Russian billionaire has not paid his ex-wife “one cent” of the £453m he was ordered to pay, a court in London has heard. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave told the family division of the high court that Farkhad Akhmedov was in contempt of court. In December 2016 Mr Haddon-Cave ordered Mr Akhmedov to pay his e-wife
A High Court judge has decided that an estranged couple’s Islamic faith marriage falls within the scope of English matrimonial law. Solicitor Nasreen Akhter and businessman Mohammed Shabaz Khan, took part in an Islamic wedding ceremony in a London restaurant in 1998. Mrs Akhter says the nikah ceremony was conducted by an imam before about
A man and woman appeared in Norwich Crown Court in connection with housing benefit and income support fraud charges and fake tenancy charges. Shannon Trett is charged with three offences, two of which relate to housing benefit. She also failed to disclose Charles Dersley was the father of her son. The other charge says she
A woman who was seeking a divorce after a 40 year marriage has lost her case. Supreme court judges “reluctantly” told Tini Owens that she must remain married because a joyless marriage is not adequate grounds for a divorce if one spouse refuses to agree. Five judges unanimously upheld rulings by a family court and
New research has found that 30 million British people do not have a will. The Populus research, conducted by Which? revealed that 61% of British adults do not have a will. The survey further found that people in England are more likely (42%) than those in Wales (35%) and Scotland (31%) to have made wills.
The Supreme Court has ruled that a man does not have to increase the maintenance payments to his former wife, 16 years after their divorce. Last year Graham Mills was ordered by the Court of Appeal to increase monthly maintenance payments to his former wife, Maria, from £1,100 per month to £1,441 for life as
A landlord has been fined over £8,000 for a total of 16 offences under the Housing Act, according to Hastings Borough Council. Thomas Wallace pleaded guilty to non-compliance with a statutory improvement notice at his property and was fined £2,667. Wallace was further required to pay £432 costs and £170 victim surcharge. Mr Wallace was
A partner has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) after he allowed his staff to pursue fraudulent personal injury (PI) claims and presided over a system that treated claims management companies (CMCs) “as if they were the actual client.” Muzammil Hussain Abid’s fellow partner at Crescent Law, Imran Uddin, was suspended for