A benefits cheat who had over £50,000 in his bank account after receiving money from an inheritance has been sentenced after illegally claiming more than £30,000. Constantino Fenu, 63, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after pleading guilty to seven counts of benefit fraud. The court heard Fenu received benefits he was not entitled to including housing
The Court of Appeal allowed a husband’s appeal against an order made by a Family Division judge that he should pay his wife a lump sum even though a Russian court had previously made a consent order following Russian divorce proceedings in which they both had legal representation. Following an evaluation of all the relevant
A retired nurse is accused of creating false tenancy agreements and claimed she rented her £400,000 home in order to claim £66,000 in benefits that she wasn’t entitled to. Margaret Ayensu, 71, lied over a period of ten years and fraudulently claimed pensions credit and housing benefit. In addition, Ayensu also created several false letters
Princess Tessy of Luxembourg is splitting from her husband Prince Louis following an 11 year marriage. Princess Tessy is now facing accusations of being a ‘gold digger’ after she launched divorce proceedings in the London courts. Princess Tessie, 31, arrived for an initial hearing last week at the Royal Courts of Justice, in a bid
A landlord has been fined £100,000 after illegally converting a Barking home into seven studio flats. Nazmul Haq, 54, converted a five-bedroom family home, which was registered as a private address, into seven flats. Mr Haq further built an illegal extension to the property. Mr Haq first had an enforcement notice issued in March 2014.
An entrepreneur said to be worth more than £200million is ‘pleading poverty,’ according to his estranged wife’s divorce lawyers. The High Court heard that Andy Ruhan’s fortune was so large ‘it’s impossible to quantify.’ The 55-year-old who once owned 37 Thistle Hotels and sat on the board of the Lotus Formula One team,
A leading divorce lawyer is campaigning for no-fault divorce and has taken her campaign directy to Conservative Party members. Ayesha Vardag, founder of London firm Vardags, pleaded her case to delegates at the party conference to lobby their MPs and bring out a change in the law. Vardag, as reported by the Law Gazette, she
A wealthy businessman claims his former “wife” is not entitled to a share in a £1.1 billion fortune as he alledges they were never legally married. Asif Aziz said he and his estranged wife Tagilde Aziz were both born abroad and obtained a “fake” marriage certificate so a child they had adopted could get a
A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation (HMO) in Oxford that was home to three people with disabilities. William Stephen Rielly was prosecuted after environmental health officers from Oxford City Council investigated a house that he owned at Nowell Road in September 2016. They
A landlord from Sheffield will be sentenced for harassing his tenants. Mark Cashin, 48, was taken to court by Sheffield City Council. Cashin pleaded guilty to two charges relating to the harassment of his tenants during a short hearing at Sheffield Crown Court. The first incident took place between Janaury 16, 2016 and February