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22 Sept 2006

Immigration update

Jane Coker discusses Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 , intra-EEA immigration, deportation, marriage and civil partnership, domestic violence, visits and work restrictions

22 Sept 2006

IHT conundrum

Inheritance tax is less and less an isolated matter and should be considered as one element of a bigger tax planning picture, says Peter Nellist

22 Sept 2006

Cheap talk?

Claimants should take the duty to negotiate under the 41st update to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 very seriously or risk a hefty cost bill. Peter Lindsay and Victoria Handley explain

15 Sept 2006

Regional focus: South-west

Jean-Yves Gilg discovers that life in the South-west can be as fast paced as in London but that business can be tough as a rural community lawyer

15 Sept 2006

Competition update

Daniel Beard discusses Crehan, damages, quantification and costs

15 Sept 2006

Keeping control

Costs capping is likely to be extended beyond group litigation, but, Simon Brown asks, will it really help keep costs under control?

15 Sept 2006

Foreign adoptions

The Children and Adoption Act 2006 will make profound changes to the rules governing adoption with a foreign element, says Simon Musannif

15 Sept 2006

Harassment: a growing tort

Barbara Hewson reviews the extension of protection against harassment from employment to other areas of the law