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SDLT: Trustees and executors beware

John Bunker reviews the new stamp duty land tax charges on additional properties and advises on the traps to watch out for

Changes ahead for costs budgeting

Steve Davies advises practitioners to be mindful of budgets as the courts are increasingly willing to penalise parties by disallowing items and restricting future costs

LGBT History Month: Living honest lives

Law firms are leading the charge on LGBT inclusion but the Law Society realises this isn't enough, writes Kevin Poulter

Law firm income increases for sixth consecutive year

One quarter of partners were found to take more money out of firms than they make in profits

Thematic warrants: 'Destroying democracy under the cloak of defending it'

Camilla Graham Wood argues that the power to issue broadly defined surveillance warrants should be removed from the Investigatory Powers Bill

Attorney general: 'Plainly wrong' for only judges to balance public interest matters

Supreme Court should not have allowed disclosure of the Prince Charles 'spider letters'

Reducing the blur

Peter Rogers considers the line of cases where solicitors are said to have been under a duty to give business, rather than legal advice

Cyber vulnerability - minimising the risk

Ashley Roughton provides practical advice on how law firms can take steps to reduce the risk of cyber attackers stealing information