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Commercial property: 'The onus is on solicitors

Recent decisions on the overpayment of rent and property search results, as well as changes in Land Registry practice, highlight the importance of the property practitioner's role, write Anthony Goodmaker, Emilie Hobday, and Miri Stickland

The mission creep of tax evasion

HMRC's proposed legislation will mean heavier financial and criminal penalties for offshore tax evasion, but beware, says Andrew Watters – this is not evasion as we know it

Veterans on closer footing to civilians when it comes 'to asbestos pay-outs

Adrian Budgen discusses the legal reasoning - and outright injustice - behind the disparity between compensation offered by the government to civilians and former troops

Eight per cent rise in property investment insolvencies as market recovers

Improved property values leads to changing behaviours in banking sector

Same, same but different

Lance Harris considers a recent judgment on commercial agency contracts, which sees the issue of entitlement to indemnity payments or compensation turned on its head

2015: A good year for contract law?

The direction of travel in commercial contract law has been towards freedom of contract and upholding the actual bargains reached by the parties, says Richard Hayes

Not just any lease, this is an M&S lease

Implying terms into contracts: Sally Anne Blackmore explains the effect ?of the Supreme Court's decision in Marks and Spencer plc v BNP Paribas

Return of the MAC

Rajiv Naik and Annabel Bennett consider the Migration Advisory Committee independent review of tier 2 visas and what it may mean for UK business