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6 Apr 2016

PSC register introduced to increase trust in company owners with 'significant control'

Latest step to heighten transparency gives firms chance to re-evaluate management structures

6 Apr 2016

Panama Papers: Outgoing employees pose risk to firms, remind lawyers

'Do you need to keep the employee in the business for six months when they could cause damage?'

6 Apr 2016

Munby praises new guide to help LiPs through divorce

Family division president hopes understanding of court processes and language will be improved

6 Apr 2016

Panama Papers shed light on spate of non-disclosure divorces

'No court in England and Wales will tolerate non-disclosure'

6 Apr 2016

New build boom sparks increase in business for conveyancers

Trend is set to continue, with 253,000 new homes given planning approval in 2015

5 Apr 2016

Sustainable development and the NPPF

Adrienne Copithorne considers how a development can be judged to be 'sustainable' within the complex context of the planning system

5 Apr 2016

All aboard the new insolvency express

Stephen Allinson reflects on the new fee regime and the operation of the Pre-Pack Pool

5 Apr 2016

The agile workplace

How do you make the case for the agile workplace, especially in the face of the naysayers who will maintain that it's about little more than furniture, writes Louise Hadland