Josiah Hincks Solicitors

Neighbours’ disputes can get badly out of hand – but lawyers are trained to defuse ill-feeling and foster compromise. In one case, a couple who engaged in a fruitless six-year boundary dispute, largely without legal representation, ended up having to pay their opponents’ substantial legal

Any level-headed lawyer will warn you that litigation is not for the faint-hearted and that compromise is almost always a better option. In one case that proved the point, neighbours ran up legal costs of more than £300,000 in a dispute over a blocked drain.

Leases generally mean what they say and judges will only imply additional terms where to do so is necessary to achieve sense or business efficacy. That point was made in a case in which a supermarket tenant attempted to block the expansion of adjoining premises

A controversial shift in government policy – designed to boost house building but which means that smaller residential developments will no longer have to include affordable homes – has received the blessing of the Court of Appeal despite fierce local authority objections. The Secretary of