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Private Client Focus | Sustaining life: the role of intuition in the Court of Protection

With jurisprudence surrounding mental capacity and human rights in its relative infancy, 'is there enough law to outweigh the use of intuition. Zak Golombeck explores the issues

Private Client Focus | Will writing regulation: aiming for the highest standards

Will writing regulation is long overdue, but standards must match those expected of solicitors, says ?Paul Horton

Private Client Focus | Calling time on tax evasion

HMRC's crackdown on offshore tax evasion will mean high penalties for those that don't seek to regularise undisclosed assets, say Charles Gothard and Abigail Nott

Private Client Focus | Challenging care home closures

Despite the vulnerable nature of the elderly, cases against ?care home closures have seen limited success, says Alec Samuels

Bridge over troubled waters: prenups

Kim Fellowes explains how practitioners and clients alike ?can get the most out of prenuptial agreements

Leading stallions: 11 rules of engagement for equity partner meetings

Vicky Brackett

Accepting responsibility: What being a partner means

Partners need to stop passing the buck and start stepping ?up as leaders, say Rob Lees and August Aquila

Access to justice in the age of austerity

New discussions over the future of legal aid must start ?now if we want to avoid the forthcoming cuts becoming irreversible, says Steve Hynes