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Dec 2019
Where more than one person owns a property, it is not uncommon for disputes to arise. However, where a conflict cannot be resolved between co-owners, only an application to the court may resolve the issue when a judge will take into account a number of factors when deciding what should happen to the property. If…
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Dec 2019
Certain formalities are required to make a will valid. When someone dies, others may seek to challenge the validity of a will, in particular if they stand to benefit if the will is set aside by the court. In addition, the testator must have capacity to make a will. They must be of sound mind…
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Dec 2019
A report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown that years have been knocked off official child life expectancy projections in the UK. As well as slashing the likelihood of children reaching the age of 100, the report revealed that a female born in 2019 is now expected to live three less years…
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Dec 2019
The study, published in medical journal The Lancet, is the most comprehensive yet to look at the long term health risks of having too much ‘bad’ cholesterol, maintaining that the earlier action is taken to reduce cholesterol through medication and changes to diet, the better. The data analysed from nearly 400,000 people from 19 countries,…
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Dec 2019
A new study by Cancer Research UK has revealed that a quarter of cancer patients experienced a delay to their diagnosis that could have been avoided. The study, which looked at the data of around 14,300 people diagnosed with cancer in England in one year, found that nearly 3,400 patients experienced a delay that could…
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Dec 2019
A major study has found that elderly patients being kept in hospital due to the social care crisis have used up 2.5 million NHS bed days since the last election, blocking almost 3,000 beds a day. The study found that the crisis is costing taxpayers £640,000 every day and has meant that fewer beds are…
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