Legal News

North Yorkshire MPs  Julian Sturdy and Kevin Hollinrake are supporting local solicitor Rachel Roche’s attempt to highlight serious concerns over the Government’s decision to increase probate fees to create what has been described as [...]

Mental capacity – the ability to legally make decisions for ourselves – is a concept which easily leads to difficult issues. It contains elements of legal theory, ethics, practicality, and human rights, and with [...]

Karl Lagerfeld is not alone in wanting to leave his cat a financial windfall after his death with Britain’s pet lovers also choosing their animals over close family. Award winning York solicitor Rachel Roche, [...]

Loyalty points are often something we collect without thinking. We scan our cards and make our purchases – only dimly aware of the points balance slowly ticking up in the background. It seems it’s [...]

Making a Will is essentially making a plan for the future. Whilst your Will only takes effect after you’ve gone, the provisions of your Will can make a huge difference to the lives of [...]

A hostile, unreasonable or ineffective executor can be a serious problem when someone’s estate is being administered. Executors are people named in a Will who have been appointed to administer an estate. In other [...]

York based Roche Legal are celebrating a remarkable hat-trick of award wins after receiving the Raising the Bar Community Award at the Leeds Civic Hall last night (Tuesday 27th November). The latest honour [...]

This has been a remarkable year for the team at Roche Legal with two prestigious awards now taking pride of place in our York office. We were over the moon to be [...]

Assisted dying has been, and continues to be, an emotive and fiercely-debated topic in modern times. Many of us, if asked, may prefer the idea of dying peacefully ‘with dignity’ rather than suffering the [...]

Rachel Roche, of York based Roche Legal, is celebrating winning one the highest accolades for lawyers in England and Wales at the Law Society’s prestigious Excellence Awards. Rachel, who recently launched a cutting edge [...]

Any specialist Wills and probate solicitor will tell you that – when dealing with your post-death intentions – if it’s not written down, it might not happen. This is one of the best reasons [...]

Life has a habit of changing dramatically when we least expect it. The further in advance we plan for something, the greater the potential for life to upset those plans. For most people, making [...]