Grainger Appleyard News

One incident of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute. On average, two women a week are killed by a current or former male partner. Domestic violence also affects one in six men. In Doncaster alone there were 9200 reported incidents to police in 2013/...

The Inheritance and Trustees Powers Act 2014, which came into effect on 1st October this year, simplifies the laws of intestacy (the rules that determine who inherits from a person who hasn’t made a will). Under the changes, where a person dies without a will leaving a spouse/civil...

At Grainger Appleyard solicitors we are often asked to advise client’s in difficult circumstances. We are aware that when, following separation, one parent chooses to move away from the other, this can have a considerable impact on contact arrangements. The law draws a distinction between...

One or two people have asked us recently if Legal Aid is still available for criminal proceedings the answer is “yes it certainly is, depending on certain criteria”. There have been changes over the last few years to financial eligibility but the situation is fairly...

Despite everyone's best intentions, Christmas is inevitably a stressful time for some families, especially if the child care arrangements (custody) are divided between two parents. The interruption of normal routines and the added pressure of including extended family into different...

The criminal behaviour order is being introduced to deal with, what the Government labels, the hard-core of persistently anti-social individuals who are also engaged in criminal activity. The court can make a criminal behaviour order against the offender if two conditions are met: the...