Insights

To mark South Asian Heritage Month in July, colleagues from across Higgs came together to share their personal experiences and reflections in a special conversation celebrating identity, culture and belonging.

As a charity lawyer, I speak to business owners regularly about how they should demonstrate purpose alongside profit, a growing governance crisis in the charity sector that presents both a challenge and an opportunity.

Although it is technically possible to contest a will even if the deceased did not know you existed, success is far from guaranteed. Challenges must be based on at least one of the recognised legal grounds.

Unmarried partners are free to make a will setting out what they would like to happen to their estate on their death. If they want their partner to benefit, this will need to be recorded in a will.

Higgs LLP has welcomed 30 Year 12 students from across the Black Country for its largest work experience programme to date, giving young people a valuable insight into careers in law and professional services.

Letters of wishes are more common where a testator leaves part of their estate in a discretionary trust, as they often explain how they would like decisions to be made after death, including who should be treated as the main objects of the trust.

Higgs LLP has announced the appointment of Keith Anderson as Regional Senior Partner in its Edinburgh office, a strategically important transition that reinforces the firm's commitment to maintaining strong local leadership in Scotland following its acquisition of Vialex Limited and Navigator Employment Law earlier this year. It also underpins Higgs’ focus on preserving the identity of the firms it acquires as it becomes multi-regional.

Higgs LLP Real Estate team has advised CJP Group Operations on the acquisition of three retail properties in Nottingham, supporting the business as it continues to grow its portfolio.

When your child's safety and wellbeing are at stake, legal costs should be the least of your worries. Yet for fathers facing child arrangement issues, uncertainty about legal costs often adds to an already stressful situation. Higgs LLP has introduced a clear, fixed fee pathway which aims to give fathers clearer guidance, cost certainty and access to joined-up legal and mediation support at a critical time.

The Higgs LLP Corporate team is celebrating again today after winning Regional Legal Team for the third year in a row at the West Midlands Rainmaker Awards last night.

Jen Hicks-Jones has joined the judging panel for this year's National Property Awards, helping to recognise the individuals and businesses that continue to make a positive impact across the sector in the UK.

For any property owner or asset manager, the decision underscores the importance of investigating and maintaining complete, up-to-date records regarding any fire safety concerns.