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The modern day CFA

Gordon Wignall asks whether an assignment of a personal injury CFA is possible

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...

Revising cost budgets: 'The importance of being prompt

David Wright discusses a recent case on the extent of the court's power to approve incurred and future costs and the lessons practitioners can learn...

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

A new year, a new non-resident capital gains tax

Samantha Mason advises conveyancing solicitors on the rules governing ?the tax on gains arising from the sale of UK property

Challenges and implications of the Autumn Statement

Lawyers will need to ensure local authorities are familiar with their duties on land disposal, increases in council tax, and a number of other requirements...

Co-sourcing is the new outsourcing

Integrating external and internal resources allows firms to cut costs and deliver services more efficiently without concerns about data security, says Maxine Park

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