A former City private equity specialist, Harry Lambert, 42, is suing his 80-year-old father, Christopher Lambert, at London's High Court in a £2 million dispute over the family's wealth and home. Harry says he gave up his career and Canary Wharf apartment in 2023 to move back to the family house in Redbridge and care for his frail mother, only to end up homeless after the relationship with his father broke down. The case highlights how informal family caregiving arrangements and promises over money and housing can collapse into bitter legal battles.

Harry claims his father asked him to return and promised long-term secure accommodation, but says he was left living on the street after his father changed the locks while he was out running. Now housed in a council-run HMO flat, where he says his living conditions prevent him from working, Harry is suing for a share of assets he values at around £2 million left by his late mother, and to be allowed back into the family home. His father, a retired teacher who inherited his wife's money on her death, disputes the claimed value of the family fortune and denies making any such promises.