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Update: wills and probate
Solicitors Journal

Update: wills and probate

Helen Bryant considers warnings from HMRC about inheritance tax disclosure, solicitors' liability to the executors and heirs of a deceased client, the rectification of a botched deed of variation, and recent decisions on statutory and mutual wills
Dial 'M' for mediation
Solicitors Journal

Dial 'M' for mediation

Is being immortalised in a client's fridge magnet a compliment? Our new columnist, the long-suffering divorce expert Marilyn Stowe, is not so sure
Update: health and safety
Solicitors Journal

Update: health and safety

The Young report promises to crack down on health and safety law, but does this area really need improving? Zahra Nanji investigates
Update: healthcare
Solicitors Journal

Update: healthcare

Jonathan Hayden outlines what impact the new white paper will have on NHS legal advisers
The final gong
Solicitors Journal

The final gong

HMRC has offered taxpayers one last chance to declare overseas assets – take advantage while you still can, say Jonathan Silverman and Andrew Kidd