We are pleased to announce that specialist Private Client and Property law firm The Garfitt Law Partnership LLP merged with Harrowells Solicitors on the 1st May 2025. Both David Garfitt and Sally Robinson, who co-own The Garfitt Law Partnership,...
Summer seems a long time ago now as we slide slowly into autumn. Autumn brings with it a change in season, cooler mornings and shorter days. On the 30 October it also brings the Autumn Statement when the chancellor sets out plans for the country’s...
Driving from Wass to Coxwold the other day, I noticed the ‘Welcome to Hambleton’ sign had disappeared. Not, as in the past, because someone had missed the bend but rather as a sign that the new North Yorkshire Council was slowly removing the...
Advances in technology mean that rural Yorkshire is these days a viable location for large scale solar farms – so yet another string is added to the diversification bow. However, the scale and longevity of such schemes means that greater care needs to...
When estate planning is considered, the focus is usually on what reliefs are available from inheritance tax and a sometimes overlooked exemption is that of gifts to charity. There are two aspects to this. Firstly a gift to charity is exempt from inheritance...