A professional who maintains accounts for businesses and individuals. Businesses use accountants for services such as maintaining financial records, tax affairs and payroll services. Individuals somet [..]

When you top-up an occupational pension, by making extra contributions into a scheme that’s run by your employer, you make an ‘additional voluntary contribution’.

This is the law that governs the way public bodies carry out their statutory duties.

A professional, who is qualified to give you advice. Among others, this could be an independent financial adviser (IFA), a whole-of-market mortgage adviser, a solicitor or an accountant.

Legal representation in a hearing, usually carried out by a barrister or solicitor on your behalf.

This is the law that governs the farming sector, including tax, trusts and property rights connected with agricultural land.

This is the maximum amount of money you can put into your pension funds in a given tax year, and still claim tax relief.

A statement from your financial services product provider sent to you once a year, showing how much you've paid, what your plan is worth (and if it’s in relation to a loan, what you still owe).

At retirement – but before you reach age 75 – you have to buy an annuity with your pension fund. It’s a payment that’s usually paid monthly, which you’ll receive as a guaranteed regular income during [..]

In England and Wales, this is when a marriage is declared void by a court, either because it was not legally valid when it took place or because it has since become not legally valid. In Scotland this [..]