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Success planning: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

From humble beginnings to market dominance, Michael Kain recounts the rise and rise of Kain Knight and what the future holds for costs lawyers, writes Laura Clenshaw

The new lone star state

Claire Bennsion considers what the fallout might be should the UK vote to leave the European Union in the upcoming referendum

Commercial property: 'The onus is on solicitors

Recent decisions on the overpayment of rent and property search results, as well as changes in Land Registry practice, highlight the importance of the property practitioner's role, write Anthony Goodmaker, Emilie Hobday, and Miri Stickland

The modern day CFA

Gordon Wignall asks whether an assignment of a personal injury CFA is possible

The mission creep of tax evasion

HMRC's proposed legislation will mean heavier financial and criminal penalties for offshore tax evasion, but beware, says Andrew Watters – this is not evasion as we know it

Revising cost budgets: 'The importance of being prompt

David Wright discusses a recent case on the extent of the court's power to approve incurred and future costs and the lessons practitioners can learn from it

Veterans on closer footing to civilians when it comes 'to asbestos pay-outs

Adrian Budgen discusses the legal reasoning - and outright injustice - behind the disparity between compensation offered by the government to civilians and former troops

A new year, a new non-resident capital gains tax

Samantha Mason advises conveyancing solicitors on the rules governing ?the tax on gains arising from the sale of UK property