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21 Jul 2009

Holding the keys

There is a lot more to consider when purchasing property for a charity than the basics of the conveyancing process, warns Jane Lonergan

21 Jul 2009

A sore point

Immigration solicitors are poised to deal with a more rigorous compliance mechanism under the new Points Based System that raises serious conflict of interest issues, says Elena Tsirlina

21 Jul 2009

Paper value

Prenups are getting closer to being worth the paper they are written on but the Law Commission will have to grapple with complex questions before they can become fully binding, says Brett Frankle

21 Jul 2009

Update: corporate tax

Jason Collins and Michael Blackwell review cases involving the VAT classifications of food products, the compatibility of the controlled foreign company regime with EU law and overpaid VAT

21 Jul 2009

Double trouble

One of the trickier areas in advocacy is the interface between care and criminal cases, where one's client is accused of offences against a child in respect of whom the local authority have issued care proceedings.

21 Jul 2009

South East: slowly out of the woods

Concentrating their efforts on a clearly identified target market, steering clear of risky high street work and definitely working on efficiencies: law firms in the South East are ready to grow with those green shoots. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

14 Jul 2009

Report reveals "dissatisfaction and disquiet" with Public Law Outline

A report for the Ministry of Justice found “dissatisfaction and disquiet” with the operation of the Public Law Outline (PLO) together with “serious concerns” relating to the welfare of children at the pre-action stage.

14 Jul 2009

Court of Appeal overturns "windfall" pensions decision

In a ruling that applies to most final salary occupational pension schemes, the Court of Appeal has rejected a High Court decision on the equalisation of retirement ages on the grounds that it would give some workers a "windfall" while being unfair to others.