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October 22, 2025

Don’t Let Cybercriminals Haunt You this October — Verify, Verify, Verify!

“If you suspect deceit, hit delete!” (Online cybersecurity slogan) October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a good time to note that as cybercrime continues to grow, more and more businesses and […]
October 22, 2025

The Transfer Process in a Nutshell

“Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.” (Will Rogers) Spring is in the air and, as the annual uptick in property sales kicks in, let’s address […]
October 22, 2025

Divorce Lawfare: The Serial Litigant and his Stalingrad Strategy

“This [the Stalingrad Strategy] is a strategy of wearing down the plaintiff by tenaciously fighting anything the plaintiff presents by whatever means possible and appealing every ruling favourable to the […]
September 8, 2025

Excuses, Excuses: Why People Don’t Make Wills, And Why You Must

“All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.” (William Shakespeare, in Hamlet) Master’s Office records suggest that less than a third of us leave behind a will when […]
September 8, 2025

Neighbours’ Facebook Feud: Cats Pics, Karens & Keyboard Muppets

“Dance like no one is watching, but text, post, and email like it will be read in court one day.” (Anon) When can the target of rude comments and insults […]
September 8, 2025

Divorce 101: A Simple Guide to the Legal Side

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” (C.S. Lewis) Divorce is traumatic, to the extent that it’s widely […]
September 8, 2025

Your House Burns to the Ground: Can You Hold the Seller Liable?

“Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.” (William Shakespeare, in King Lear) A recent High Court judgment confirms, yet again, that if a property seller knows about a hidden defect […]
July 18, 2025

Private Prosecution: Neighbours at War

“I charge you by the law.” (William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice) Victims of crime are entitled to see the perpetrators brought to justice. Feeling that the justice system […]
July 18, 2025

A Bond Clause Deadline Whooshes by and a Sale Dies – Can You Revive it?

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” (Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt) Contracts often contain suspensive conditions, a common example being […]
July 18, 2025

Putting Emoji to Paper – Has A Digital Thumbs Up Become the New Ballpoint Pen?

As technology has evolved, so too have our methods of communication. In 1999, Japan introduced the first emoji – a simple image, symbol, or icon intended to convey emotion. These […]