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Update | Wealth management: resident, residential property transactions and capital gains tax

Fiona Poole considers government consultations defining the meaning of 'resident', residential property transactions and capital gains tax, and asks how struggling practitioners can best ?advise clients

Workshop: Public: Enforcing planning obligations

Under financial pressure, more developers are failing to abide by the terms of planning agreements says Meyric Lewis

BTE could do more harm than good

Michael Williamson warns that legal expenses insurance may not fill the gaps left by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act

European brief | Dragging Greece over the coals

Paul Stanley

Felix | The truth will out

The exposure of Jimmy Savile is a testament to the bravery of those willing to speak out, says Felix

Folk law | Look before you leap

Baron Hore-Belisha's brush with death on the highway led to a change in the law that is still with us today 


Regulatory watch | Making will writing a reserved activity is not the right approach

Will consumers really benefit from the LSB's proposal for will writing and estate administration to be made reserved activities, asks Nigel West

Switched on: expert witnesses

Inside the mind of an expert witness, by Clive Sims