Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Life line

Is life being breathed into inheritance tax? Stephen Barratt considers the latest changes to the rules

Legal purgatory

Trainee Elizabeth Thomas waxes satirical

Public Guardian in second attempt to recruit non-lawyer deputies

The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is making a second attempt to replace solicitors as deputies with cheaper lay representatives from charities.

Solicitors have 'different views' on ABS, Wotton says

Solicitors have â€œmany different viewsâ€ on the impact of ABS, John Wotton, the new president of the Law Society, has told the American Bar Association.

Home sweet home

The beleaguered UK care industry is in desperate need of relief, but will the government give a warm welcome to proposals for reform? Natalie Boorer...

Drawing up deeds of trust

Safeguarding the interests of individuals who have helped fund a property purchase should be a matter of principle, says John Coulter

Equality enabled

In the second of their articles on the effect of the Equality Act on housing law, Jim Shepherd and Robert Latham consider the changing scope...

Off the wall

As it ruled that plaster formed part of the walls â€“ and therefore of the structure - of a demised property, the Court of Appeal...

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