It’s all about the Benjamins in court, says Dominic Regan
“It’s not the principle, it’s the money,” said the late singer Dorothy Squires. She was in a dispute over royalties with her publisher. It transpired that she wasn’t due a penny. Sadly, a woman who once owned a mansion with her then husband Roger Moore, spent her last days in a flat next to a fish and chip shop in South Wales.
Performers have constantly been taken advantage of by unscrupulous managers, concert organisers and others who scent money. Even to this day Aretha Franklin will only appear in concert if her fee in cash is given to her on arrival. No pay, no play.
The overwhelming majority of legal disputes revolve around financial issues. Contentious probate and big matrimonial disputes are where private client work is boiling at the moment and this is not going to change. London is both a property and a divorce hotspot.
Money misery
Many will recall the Scot Young divorce litigation where his ex-wife, convinced that her former spouse
