Financial Services & Tax

Articles

Final demands

Beware! Failure to demand rates may preclude subsequent recovers, warns Robert Fookes

Express yourself

How can the courts reconcile the acquisition of a beneficial interest in the family home where the property is already held in joint names under an express trust? Mark Pawlowski investigates

Update: environment

Adrienne Copithorne reviews the recent developments in costs, directives and judicial review procedure to impact eco-law

Taxing times

Anthony Nixon offers a step-by-step guide to the inheritance tax pickle caused by the 2006 reshuffle

Appeal judges rebuke divorcing couple over expensive privacy row

Divorcing couples should not use the threat of publication of a court ruling as an aid to enforcement of ancillary relief decisions, the Court of Appeal has said as it overturned a judgment granting a shipping tycoon anonymity.

Update: family

Lynne Passmore reviews Radmacher and the future of prenups, document disclosure, the extravagant lifestyle of a divorcing couple, and a TOLATA claim on the significance of the parties being engaged

Update: tax and trusts

With the third Finance Act of the year to be published shortly, it has been a rollercoaster period for practitioners, writes David Bird

New leaf

As SJ puts the finishing touches to next week's pro bono special, Jean-Yves Gilg and Rebecca Hilsenrath kick us off with a warning to the coalition: blur the boundaries of legal aid and pro bono at your peril