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Update: insolvency

Courts are grappling with challenges to the new 'flat pack' bankruptcies, say David Archer and Alan Shenton

Update: clinical negligence

Jock Mackenzie considers three cases on surgical performance and a decision on whether a hospital owed a non-delegable duty

A year in charity

Stone King's charity team reflects on the most significant cases this year, including religious and sexual orientation discrimination, contested legacies and the role of the...

Crossing borders

New laws introduced more than a year after the European Court of Justice''s ruling on tax benefits for foreign charities end up creating more confusion...

Charity concert

Andrew Lloyd Webber's clash with the Charity Commission is a lesson in transparency, say Julian Washington and Zahra Kanani

A world of difference

With increasing complexity between residency and domicile, practitioners must ensure they understand the international aspects of drafting wills in the UK and overseas or they...

Live and learn

The Charity Commission must review its approach to assessing public benefit and give more credit to what independent schools offer the wider community, says Claris...

Powering on

Merging or working collaboratively can be a life-saving move for charities facing funding cuts, but it must be planned carefully, warns Catherine Rustomji