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Estate planning update: Inheritance Act claims after Lilleyman

Susi Dunn reviews the state of the law on Inheritance Act claims after the Lilleyman case, the lottery winners' joint accounts case, and the new reduced IHT rate for charity legacies

Company law update: share buybacks

Mark Lucas examines how private companies can fund share buybacks out 'of distributable profits without adverse 'tax treatment

Folk law | It's all Sir Walter Raleigh's fault

Andrew Lugger traces the history of anti-smoking legislation, 'from the early days to the Health Act 2006

Regulatory watch | Understanding the regulatory process

Being able to access decisions by our regulatory bodies and courts is an essential 'step to understanding their approach and expectations in the new world of 'outcomes focused regulation, says Susanna Heley

Rise in breach of trust claims against conveyancers

The surge in mortgage fraud is leading lenders to 'consider breach of trust against conveyancers as 'alternatives to negligence claims. Julian Miller and Parminder Badhan report

Workshop: Public law

Parties to judicial review proceedings should make clear their intention to settle at the 'earliest opportunity if they want to avoid adverse costs orders, says Sarah Sackman

High Court rejects English badger cull judicial review

Court 'being invited to interfere unduly in the political or administrative decision-making process'

Lord Neuberger to be president of Supreme Court

Master of the Rolls who declined position as one of the first justices when Supreme Court was created will replace Lord Phillips and be sworn in on 1 October