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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

Jonathan Hayden outlines what impact the new white paper will have on NHS legal advisers

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

Offbeat

Pension offsetting is simple in principle but is surprisingly easy to get wrong, says Peter Moore

Belt tightening

As penniless politicians become increasingly hostile to trusts, tax planners are facing tough times ahead, say Rosamond McDowell and Ceri Norman-Short

It's regulatory, my dear will writers

As the controversy surrounding rogue will writers hots up, Ian Grant takes on the arguments surrounding full regulation

Heads will roll

It was September. All the old lags were there, full of stories of their summer exploits – how they had fallen out of apple trees...

Going round the houses

Now in-house legal privilege has been removed, what should practitioners do to avoid breaking the new rules? Gavin Foggo and Deepak Arora report