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
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
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
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.
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
