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Update: Taxation

Richard Bunker discusses the so-called offshore disclosure “amnesty”, private equity groups, the Finance Bill 2007 and other developments

Border trouble

Giving prior agreements supremacy would avoid competing claims being litigated in different EU jurisdictions, says Ian Gascoigne

Holy grail or a hornets' nest?

Charities have much to gain from securing public service delivery contracts but there are also many reasons why they should exercise caution, argues Robert Porter

The politics of HIPs

HIPs may be green but are they also Brown? Nigel Ewert Evans explains the importance of the new prime minister to the future of HIPs

An independent personal service provision

A number of recent changes to the searches' market mean that it is set to become much more competitive and conveyancers will be able to make use of better personal search products, explains Janet Baker

Changing a guilty plea

Revitt v DPP confirms that a guilty plea is an appropriate process in English law and that the ECHR in no way affects this, says Anthony Ostrin

Higher standards

Many of the rules in the recently issued Solicitors' Regulation Authority new code of conduct for solictors are based on well-known principles but they take a more direct approach. David Barton explains.

Unjust enrichment: strict liability for trust property

Recent cases in the English and Commonwealth courts herald a radical change to the conditions for liability and for unjust enrichment, says Henry Webb