The High Court has granted an urgent hearing to a judicial review challenging the Government’s proposed changes to inheritance tax reliefs for farms and family businesses, in a move that significantly raises the legal stakes around reforms currently passing through Parliament. The claim, brought by Collyer Bristow LLP on behalf of professional services firm Alvarez […]
The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that a daughter cannot claim a share in her father’s property if he passed away before 1956, the year the Hindu Succession Act came into force. Emphasising that such inheritance is governed by the Mitakshara law, the court observed that under this traditional system, a daughter is not entitled […]