Compensation or any other award that the tribunal can make.

Separate tribunal hearing to consider how much compensation the tribunal should award.

Some freehold properties are subject to a rentcharge payable to the rentcharge owner. This may be to ensure income for the original land owner without the existence of a lease or it can be to ensure that estate covenants can be enforced more easily.

Any friend, carer or family member who is supporting the individual in the process as well as anyone acting in a more formal capacity (e.g. someone with a valid and applicable Lasting Power of Attorney (Health and Welfare) or someone appointed as a Deputy (Health and Welfare) by the Court of Protection, or an organisation representing the individual).

An administration fee charged by some mortgagees to cover the cost of reserving a mortgagor’s entitlement to a loan on certain terms. Possibly also a fee paid to a builder to reserve a particular new property.

When you leave your home to your descendants you may qualify for an additional threshold before inheritance tax becomes due.

The remainder of the estate of a deceased person after the liabilities and legacies have been paid. This is split between the ‘residuary beneficiaries’.

The person who responds to proceedings issued at court.

Cancels.

Regulations or principles creating a set of requirements, such as the requirements of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.

A reference to S25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 which sets out a list of criteria that a District Judge must consider when making decisions about financial cases.

The sale of a property.

The rule (now repealed) which blocked victims of violent crime at the hands of another member of their own household from making a claim.

A claimant’s opportunity to detail what they want to claim by way of monetary compensation in their tribunal claim.

Someone who sells a property.

If you separate from one another as a couple. Agreements in relation to finances are often recorded in a deed of separation.

A payment required by a lessor or managing agent to cover the costs of maintaining and running a development (e.g. gardening and decorating and also insuring a block of flats).

The voluntary conclusion of any litigation by the parties involved. Settlement can be made at any time before a final hearing.

A binding contract that records the terms and payments to be made from an employer to a current or a former employee in return for a waiver by the employee of any defined contractual and statutory employment law claims, for example unfair dismissal. For a settlement agreement to be legally binding an employee must seek independent legal advice on its terms.

A person who creates a trust.

Unfavourable treatment on the grounds of a person’s gender; or a policy or a criterion which has an adverse effect due to a person’s sex or marital status.

Cruelty or violence towards another person, involving inappropriate and non-consensual sexual activity.

Unfavourable treatment on the grounds of a person’s sexual orientation, or perceived sexual orientation.

The term used to describe couples who divorce or separate later in life.