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  • Public Footpaths: Rights, Responsibilites and Restrictions In the course of acting for our clients looking to purchase residential property, we have found numerous different issues can arise relating to accessing property where the access is via an unmade and unadopted accessway. Such issues can in particular arise...
  • Sherlock Holmes and the German Ocean The long nervous fingers of Sherlock Holmes retrieved a pinch of sweet latakia tobacco from the slipper under his chair, and began to stuff a meerschaum pipe. His long aquiline nose twitched in anticipation of pleasure. But Holmes’ attention was...
  • Sherlock Holmes and the German Ocean the Second Instalment As recounted by Dr Watson in very advanced old age to a very juvenile Mark Fairweather The story so far (see the first instalment, distributed December 2006): It is Christmas Eve 1906. Earlier in the day, a mysterious and beautiful young lady –...
  • Sherlock Holmes and the German Ocean the Third Instalment The story so far. It is the morning of Christmas Day 1906. The previous day, a mysterious and beautiful young lady - believed to be a princess of the royal family of Bohemia - had called at Holmes's rooms and 22B Baker St London. She had been staying at...
  • The Walk to Paradise Gardens: Flat-owners and Building Defects A paper derived from a talk to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in Birmingham on 7th April 2009. When owners of flats in a multi-unit development realise that their flats and ‘the common parts’ of their development may be suffering...