Category: Real life

Winners of music, journalism, enterprise and scholarship awards announced along with the launch of a brand new prize for photography. Anjool’s Trust announced a new crop of bright talent and award winners today, the fourth anniversary of his untimely loss of life in London in 2009. The Anjool Maldé Memorial Trust was set up in […]

Head of Family law at Seddons, Deborah Jeff, is quoted by the Evening Standard today as saying the number of couples signing “no-nup” agreements before they move in together is rising sharply. Some of the contracts are intended to ensure that family wealth or assets brought into a relationship by one partner remain under their […]

Top London Family Lawyer Deborah Jeff comments on the sentencing of ‘property tycoon’ Scot Young over non-compliance to respond to questions in the High Court about the whereabouts of his ‘missing’ millions… Mr Young, who made a fortune as a fixer for British businessmen and Russian oligarchs, has been accused by former wife Michelle Young, […]

Deborah Jeff comments on a court ruling that oil tycoon Michael Prest should not be forced to hand over assets totalling £18m to his former wife, cutting his divorce bill by £9m. Last October, Nigerian-born businessman Prest was ordered to pay his former wife cash and assets in the form of six of his properties. […]

Marriage and children are more important than material possessions or careers, according to a survey of what people think are life’s greatest achievements. Leading Family Lawyer Deborah Jeff comments on the story… Friends of the Elderly found a remarkable similarity between what over-55s thought were the best things they have achieved so far and what […]

For US$9 a day, workers toil in the bowels of a mine that once funded an empire. When the Spanish came to Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain) in the 16th century, they hoped to find gold. But the cone-shaped mountain looming over the city of Potosi and now riddled with makeshift tunnels and unstable shaft systems […]

The wrestling ring is a place where stereotypes are turned on their head and left locked in a half-nelson. A macho sport in South America’s most impoverished and conservative country has become an expression of female empowerment. Carmen Rosa, with pigtails and gold front teeth, is the undisputed champion. The role of indigenous people is […]

On Saturday morning October 15, 1910 Walter Wellman and his five-man crew set off on their daring attempt to cross the Atlantic in the airship ‘America’… They were tired yet content to be on their way at last after weeks of waiting in Atlantic City. Europe was their destination, especially Ireland or England. “I don’t […]