Category: Real life

The true story of the abduction of a three-year-old child from Bristol, England, to San Francisco, California, and its appalling consequences. 11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen’s bankers, Coutts & Co, sent two cashier’s cheques to the law firm of Urie Walsh in San Francisco with the wrong address on […]

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, […]

Winners of music, journalism and enterprise awards announced along with newest award for students at Anjool’s alma mater, St Peter’s College, Oxford. Anjool’s Trust announced a new crop of bright talent and award winners today, the third anniversary of his tragic, untimely death in London in 2009. Musical Talent of the Year 2012 Winner Soumik […]

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 […]