Children

Articles

5 Oct 2007

The training race

Chore or development opportunity? With the annual CPD deadline of 31 October looming many practitioners are reviewing their CPD hours. Clarissa Dann considers the different approaches to personal development

21 Sept 2007

Children: an Islamic law perspective

Islamic law determines the best interests of a child differently from English law, says Raffia Arshad

14 Sept 2007

South West: Return of the general practitioner

Law firms face a challenge from the Legal Services Act but a return to a more traditional-style private client firm offers a solution, says Jean-Yves Gilg

7 Sept 2007

Wind in your sail

Smaller firms should leverage their local knowledge to become involved in renewable energy projects, argues Stefan Schmitz

17 Aug 2007

Taxing transfers

Tax rules on transfers made by a transferor who dies before the seven-year cut-off point should be relaxed, argues Helen Hobhouse

10 Aug 2007

A question of ownership versus possession

Robert Leonard considers the problems of correcting a land register while not changing the situation on the ground

20 Jul 2007

Not in full agreement

Entire agreements clauses will only be effective if the wording is sufficiently clear and wide in scope, say Eamonn Mcnamara and Michael Twomey

20 Jul 2007

Life in crime

Francis FitzGibbon explains that the IPP regime may have the opposite effect to what was intended