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- “Not in front of the children!” – Trust administration
- A guide to mental capacity & lasting powers of attorney in Jersey
- A Helping Hand through the Door
- A modern workplace: diverse, family friendly and flexible.
- A property snap shot
- A reconciliation contract – an alternative to divorce?
- A reform of the tutelle system; minors inheriting property
- Above your neighbour’s land? You’re not above the law when it comes to neighbourly duties
- Acting as an executor
- Age discrimination: retirement age can no longer be stipulated by employers
- Appeal court examines the necessary elements required for an indecent assault
- Art 125 scheme to move a Jersey company to England
- Avoiding the christmas party from hell
- Beneficial Ownership
- Board deadlock and shareholder intervention
- Boundary dispute
- Breach of an illegal contract: enforcable or not?
- Brexit, Jersey and the sequel to Protocol 3
- Brexit: EU Citizen Living in Jersey?
- Brussels IV: Own property abroad?
- Bullying & harassment in the workplace
- Bullying & harassment in the workplace: how to handle it as an employee
- Bullying & harassment in the workplace: how to tackle it as an employer
- Business leases – MOT before you start the journey
- Buying your first home together
- Can spousal maintenance ever be forever?
- Charitable gift of Jersey land in a will and possible conflict that can arise
- Child contact at Christmas: make a clear plan
- Child maintenance: defining a ‘parent’
- Child maintenance: what rate is right?
- Clear contracts avoid murky waters for land owners
- Cohabitation: you may not get back what you put in to a property
- Commercial disappointment & failure of substratum not the same
- Constructive unfair dismissal
- Contract of purchase found to be binding in boundary dispute between neighbours
- Conveyancing: It’s about far more than just property
- Counting the cost of your divorce
- David & Goliath – round 3 the battle between the developer, the planning department and the home owner
- Death is a taxing matter: Have you considered the stamp duty implications of making a Will?
- Declaratory relief in the context of regulatory supervision
- Delays in law drafting can be damaging
- Digital life after death
- Digital Wills
- Directors’ wrongful trading clearly defined
- Dividing the marital assets in a divorce
- Divorce d-day
- Divorce it isn’t all about the parents
- Divorce with dignity
- Divorce: what about the children?
- DIY divorce
- Do I have a case? Don’t get caught with your pants down
- Do you need planning permission?
- Employee Benefit Trustees Await Developments
- Expect the unexpected
- Experienced family lawyer returns to Viberts
- Expert medical reports: to disclose or not to disclose?
- Failure to make a declaration of directors’ conflicts of interest
- Family Law and Those New Year Blues
- Family law jargon buster
- Fast cars, hiding assets, expensive new partners…
- GDPR action plan
- Generous view of fund directors’ duties
- Getting re-married? What you need to consider
- Green Funerals
- Guidance for preparing statements of solvency
- Happily living together? Protect your interests
- Harassment remedies – domestic abuse
- Has divorce law now gone too far in favour of women?
- Have you got a will?
- Have you got the will to make a will?
- How long have you got to sue a dishonest director?
- How not to seek a just and equitable winding up
- How to appeal a planning decision
- I love you – but what about a pre-nup?
- In the dark about divorce?
- Incapacity: Who will manage my affairs if I become incapable?
- Inherent jurisdiction invoked to plug an inconvenient gap in (Manx) company law
- Inherited assets & dividing these in a divorce
- Interesting developments regarding financial matters on divorce
- Is court that bad? The role of the arbitrator
- It’s not you, nor me: is the concept of ‘no fault divorce’ on the cards?
- It’s time to push back against “Jersey, United Kingdom” because it’s got out of hand
- Jersey’s HSS failures contribute to death of resident
- Jersey’s succession laws & your family finances
- Keeping Divorce Costs Down
- Keeping the family together: the collaborative approach to family law
- Land transfer tax
- Leaving a bequest to charity in your will
- Legal expenses insurance: what’s it all about?
- Liability when an airline crashes?
- Litigation jargon buster
- Litigation Risk and the “Chinese Tiger”
- Making a claim for a holiday ruined by illness
- Making home improvements? Do your homework first
- Marriage vs. cohabitation
- Modernisation of Jersey’s inheritance laws
- New building levy in Jersey
- New leases – what a landlord now needs to know
- New mental health law aims to bring peace of mind
- New year, new you, new business
- New year, no job? Redundancy and compromise agreements
- No more rummaging in bins!
- No post-resignation implied duty of confidentiality in director’s contract
- No ring? No inheritance rights
- Non-executive director: just a touch of class?
- Obtaining probate in Jersey & the advantages of having a separate Jersey Will
- Parental Responsibility – have you got consent for travelling as a single parent with children?
- Parental responsibility, residence & contact – Children Law in Jersey
- Parents: Let’s Talk About Sex
- Planning some changes?
- Presumed Consent has Arrived
- Privacy – an issue for all levels of society
- Property planning appeals – how long have I got?
- Providing for pets in a will
- Putting down roots: business leases & security of tenure
- Recent developments that apply to the granting of bail in Jersey
- Redundancy: employer beware!
- Registration of Charities in Jersey
- Rejecting a buy out offer in a quasi-partnership company not necessarily fatal to securing a just and equitable winding up
- Royal court decision empowers the court to order damages for a neighbours’ encroachment
- Rules to determine fair value payable for shares in a company merger
- Selling the reversionary interest in your home: the pros & cons
- Separated: Let the whole family have a happy Christmas
- Setting aside trusts on the grounds of mistake as to tax consequences – S & T Trusts
- Setting up a small business
- Settling your family disputes outside court
- Seymour Villa & Seymour Cottage – a planning tale
- Shaky completions in Jersey’s Royal Court
- Should the law change be changed for unmarried couples – gay or heterosexual?
- Sickness in the workplace
- Six things you should never forget when buying a property
- Social media & relationship breakdown
- Social media: the need for clear guidelines
- Strawberry fields forever?
- Subjective and objective views of directors’ duties
- Tax changes for non-dom UK property owners
- Tenants’ deposits: are they now “safe as houses”?
- The “boomerang generation” & divorce
- The customer is always right: returning faulty goods
- The Devil is in the Detail
- The electric vehicle revolution – is this the calm before the storm?
- The foreshore: where do you draw the (water)line?
- The impact on children when a relationship breaks down
- The issue of parking when buying property
- The Limited Liability Partnerships (Jersey) Law 2018
- The minefield of redundancy
- The new housing and work law legislation has arrived
- The pre-nuptial agreement comes of age
- The quirkiest restrictions found in Jersey property deeds
- To will or not to will?
- Top tips for keeping divorce costs down
- Tout tel under scrutiny
- Transgender discrimination case
- Travel contracts: United Airlines’ ejection
- Turning an injury into compensation
- Two generation homes
- Viberts Family Law Partner, Jamie Orchard has been recognised in the 2019 Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35.
- Viberts helps commemorate 250th anniversary of Jersey Reform Day
- Viberts Partner, Jamie Orchard acts in landmark family law case
- Viberts Partner, Rebecca Morley-Kirk represents defendant in landmark mental health case
- Victory for Viberts’ client after six year trust battle
- What Happens If You Don’t Make an LPA?
- What is a Calderbank offer?
- What is privilege?
- What to expect when you attend voluntarily for interview at the police station
- When is a PILON clause correctly exercised?
- Where are your assets located?
- Where there is a will there is a way!
- Which of multiple breaches of the proper purpose rule matters?
- Who is liable for storm damage to property?
- Winding up of companies Re Monarch Investments Ltd.
- Winding up of Jersey companies
- Workplace Dress code: Why can’t I wear this to work?
