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Lucy Brennan considers the long-term benefits of succession planning

As a new year starts the last thing people wish to plan for is the end of their lives. However, inheritance tax planning waits for no one and there are time limits to consider both in lifetime planning and post-death adjustment to wills and death estate calculations.

File-sharing action lawyer suspended for two years

Andrew Crossley, the sole-practitioner who sent hundreds of letters to web users accusing them of illegal file sharing, has been suspended for two years by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

Society launches campaign against HSBC panel cuts

The Law Society has advised solicitors to complain to their MPs about HSBC's decision to radically reduce the size of its conveyancing panel.

Global warming

Competition between countries seeking to attract investment from ?the super rich is heating up. Helen Manis discusses the latest trends ?in high-net-worth immigration

Sign of the times

Changes to the law of intestacy reflect sensibly societal shifts

Divide and conquer

?Jesicca Costello considers what practitioners can do to reduce the chances of inheritance claims by adult children

Plus ca change

Focusing on the disappointment of what the Finance Bill omits should not detract from the positive changes it introduces, says James Badcock

Cold front

UK residents risk being frozen out by ?the Court of Protection's current legal ?aid scheme, say Rebecca Basely and Francesca Gardner