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Desert island risk: can you survive alone?

Sharing client bases, joining up with financial advisers and retaining clients. Does this sound like you or your firm? Jennifer Palmer-Violet reports on why private...

No waiting room

Time is money, so be proactive and chase up a doctor's testamentary capacity report before it's too late, says Lloyd Junor

Who's holding the strings?

With undue influence still a difficult point to prove, advisers need to be aware of what their clients think it means and explain the potential...

Damages-based agreements – usable with care?

Damages-based agreements (DBAs), if they are to be used at all, require careful consideration of a large number of issues. In the first article of...

Licensing update

Local authorities must take procedures and technical propriety seriously, says Roy Light

Post-Jackson litigation: torn both ways

District Judge Robert Jordan examines the pressures on courts as care proceedings and other civil cases fight for priority

Non-compliance with diversity data collection is not an acceptable option

Trying to hold firms accountable for the personal choices of their employees is not the way to increase diversity data collection, says Brian Rogers

My firm doesn't need a consumer credit licence, does it?

If your firm undertakes consumer credit work after 1 April without a licence, it is potentially committing a criminal offence, says Stuart Bushell