Insights - Collyer Bristow

Corporate & Corporate recovery, restructuring & insolvency & Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Coronavirus: tax relief for the self-employed

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Corporate & Corporate recovery, restructuring & insolvency

Coronavirus – Company directors must remember their legal duties

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Coronavirus: Chancellor to announce support for the Self-Employed

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Commercial real estate & Real estate disputes

Coronavirus & business interruption insurance: practical considerations for tenants

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

The Challenge of co-parenting and Coronavirus

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

The President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice’s formal guidance on compliance...

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Family and divorce

The Challenge of Co-parenting and Coronavirus

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Real estate disputes

Coronavirus – what should landlords expect from government measures?

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Corporate recovery, restructuring & insolvency

Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme: an overview for SMEs

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Coronavirus Job Retention scheme – what it is and how can you apply?

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Real Estate

Can construction continue on development sites following Boris Johnson’s announcement last night?

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Construction

Coronavirus: What protection is afforded to contractors?

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UK trusts, tax and estate planning & Wills and succession planning

Coronavirus – Can you create a Will while self-isolating?

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Construction

Coronavirus crisis: the legal impact on the construction industry

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Commercial & Corporate

Coronavirus – Frustration and Force Majeure in Commercial Contracts

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Family and divorce

Coronavirus: What does it mean for you and your divorce?

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Coronavirus school closures – Should you consider Parental Leave?

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FinTech

In the hands of the Court: Crypto 2020

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Coronavirus: six alternatives to making redundancies

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Banking & financial disputes

Practical guidance for dealing with a Regulatory Decisions Committee action

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Banking & financial disputes

Coronavirus and Loan Agreements: A Material Adverse Change?

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Guidance for employers

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Retrospective Anti-Forestalling and the 2020 Budget Entrepreneurs Relief Changes: What Price the Rule of Law?

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FinTech

Cryptocurrency as property: Australian Court allows cryptocurrency as security for costs

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Banking & financial disputes & Financial regulatory & FinTech

An update of the latest developments in crypto regulations

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Banking & financial disputes & Financial regulatory

A firm receives a section 170 notice: what next?

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Banking & financial disputes

Outlook for OFAC Sanctions on Foreign Companies

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Commercial real estate & Employment law for employers

Status of construction industry contractors questioned by Tribunal ruling

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Are your contracts of employment ready for changes taking effect on 6 April?

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Family and divorce

Can I increase divorce payments from my Ex?

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Coronavirus: What should employers do in the event of a pandemic?

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Restaurant going bust? Here’s some food for thought…

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Family and divorce

Islamic marriage ceremony ruled as void marriage

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Residential property & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Are you ready for changes to Capital Gains Tax rules?

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Banking & financial disputes & Financial services

A new era for open-ended funds with illiquid assets?

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Intellectual property & Intellectual property disputes

Making Waves: IPEC finds fabric design a work of artistic craftmanship

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Banking & financial disputes & Financial regulatory & Financial services & FinTech

Court confirms status of cryptoassets as ‘property’

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Business & Business Immigration

The New Global Talent Visa

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Corporate & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Entrepreneurs Relief Reform

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Banking & financial disputes & Financial services & Real estate finance

Libor transition and loans – what borrowers in the real estate market need to know

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FinTech & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

How are your cryptoassets taxed?

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Prime Minister’s remarks increase Entrepreneurs Relief concerns

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Corporate

How to make use of Entrepreneurs Relief

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Family and divorce

How do the family courts approach international child cases?

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Employment law for employees & Intellectual property & Intellectual property disputes

Sue, Chef? Protecting a Chef’s name

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International trusts, tax and estate planning

How do I solve my transatlantic inheritance tax problem?

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Pre-Budget CGT Planning: Time to Act for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

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Family and divorce

How can I ensure my child gets the best education?

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Commercial real estate

Leasehold Properties – How changes could affect English markets

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Banking & financial disputes

Singularis: the Supreme Court upholds the Quincecare duty

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Residential property

Commercial leases – a world apart from assured shorthold tenancies

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Commercial & Data Protection

Privacy and real-time bidding: An updated guide for adtech vendors and publishers

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Real estate disputes

What issues do you need to be aware of when building above existing buildings?

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Residential property

The CGT consequences of buying a ‘space in a tower’

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Employment law for employees & Financial regulatory & Financial services

SMCR implementation deadline imminent

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Court of Appeal orders re-trial of forex “demo accounts” case

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International trusts, tax and estate planning & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

General Election: party manifestos confirm coming CGT Entrepreneurs Relief changes

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

General Election: party manifestos confirm coming CGT Entrepreneurs Relief changes

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Legal statement on cryptoassets and smart contracts – the breakdown

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Litigation risks associated with Libor transition

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Banking & financial disputes

English Court grants anti-suit injunction to restrain New York proceedings

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Recourse options available for corporate victims of payment frauds

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Intellectual property & Intellectual property disputes

A Joint Effort? The Court of Appeal assesses the requirements for joint authorship in copyright...

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UK trusts, tax and estate planning & Wills and succession planning

What happens if a will is found after an estate has already been divided?

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Tax disputes & investigations

Calls to Abolish CGT Entrepreneurs Relief – Should Business Owners Be Worried?

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Calls to Abolish CGT Entrepreneurs Relief – Should Business Owners Be Worried?

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Intellectual property

How can CPR Part 36 incentivise early settlement of disputes?

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Banking & financial disputes

High Court rules investors have sufficient interest in Tesco PLC securities to be able to...

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Commercial disputes

Don’t get burned by the ASA’s Halloween safety advertising guidelines

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Commercial disputes & Dispute Resolution

Don’t get burned by the ASA’s safety advertising guidelines this Halloween and Bonfire Night

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A commentary on inheritance tax case, Routier v HMRC

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Media & privacy

Harry and Meghan take on the press – what is the likely outcome?

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Banking & financial disputes

Hague Convention letters of request: What to do when you are on the receiving end

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Commercial & Commercial real estate

From house chains to email chains – Are email signatures binding?

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Commercial disputes & Dispute Resolution

Email (House) Chain

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Purchasing a private jet: The adviser’s perspective

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Luxury assets & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Can I create a trust fund for alternative investment profits?

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Luxury assets

Up And Away – Everything you need to know about owning a private aircraft

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Should employers be aware of employee disabilities if they are not disclosed?

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UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Why might a trust be of benefit?

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Family and divorce

From Russia (to the English Family Court) with Love – the Vladimir Potanin divorce proceedings

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Data Protection

How to limit reputational damage after a data breach

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Why apathy isn’t good enough when it comes to Wills

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Commercial real estate & Corporate & Corporate recovery, restructuring & insolvency

Should landlords take equity in their retail tenants?

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Construction & Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Mental wellbeing: An ethical responsibility, as well as a legal one

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Commercial real estate & Corporate & Corporate recovery, restructuring & insolvency

PRESS RELEASE: Addressing the broken business rates system

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Are non-doms really leaving the UK?

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Banking & financial disputes

Brexit boom in currency hedges sparks fears of mis-selling

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Employment law for employers & Financial regulatory & Financial services

FCA publishes final rules on the SMCR

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Corporate & Private Equity

Brexit -The impact on SMEs, Entrepreneurs and Investors

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UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Office of Tax Simplification publishes recommendations to simplify inheritance tax

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Should inheritance tax be simplified?

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Data Protection

British Airways facing record GDPR fine

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Financial regulatory & Financial services & FinTech

Protecting crypto consumers from themselves?

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Data Protection

AI: It’s time to ExplAIn

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Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers

Overview of the UK Gig economy

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Which parent died first and why does it matter?

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Business & Data Protection

It’s time to AI-xplain

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Remove

Sotheby’s bought by French billionaire for $3.7bn

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

£15bn lost behind the sofa

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Johnson proposes £3,000 tax cut for higher earners

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Lewis Chessman: Ivory rare discovery

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Banking & financial disputes

A bank’s Quincecare duty of care

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Media & Privacy

UK Supreme Court considers ‘ordinary reader of Facebook’ in Defamation claim

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Private Equity

The Rose Report: navigating funding options

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Media & privacy & Private Wealth

UK Supreme Court considers ‘the ordinary reader of a Facebook Post’ in Defamation claim

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Banking & financial disputes & Competition & antitrust

Major banks fined over €1bn for FX spot trading cartel

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Banking & financial disputes

Cryptocurrencies enlisted in the sanctions war

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Data Protection

Why GDPR isn’t last year’s news

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Commercial real estate & Employment law for employees

The National Minimum Wage

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FinTech

New York Attorney General launches an investigation into cryptocurrency trading platform

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Banking & financial disputes

English court refuses permission to turn over witness statements to FBI

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Employment law for employees

Zero hours contracts in the Construction industry

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Commercial

The 10 million dollar ‘handshake’

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Probate & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Q&A: My father has left his home to me and my siblings. What will it...

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Media & privacy

Social media should be responsible for libels

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European Antiques Market Threatened by New Regulation

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Banking & financial disputes

English court denies claim by foreign software giant to enforce US judgment

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Commercial real estate & Residential property

Co-living schemes appeal to all ages

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Banking & financial disputes

Court of Appeal decides litigation privilege does not apply in first televised appeal

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Banking & financial disputes

First Tower Trustee Ltd v CDS

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Banking & financial disputes

CLO Manager not entitled to Incentive Fee on optional redemption

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Being born a royal is hard enough – try being a US taxpayer too

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Banking & financial disputes

Air crash investigator report into Ethiopian Airlines crash – financial implications for Boeing?

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Commercial & Commercial real estate & Real estate disputes

Estate agents- get your contract in place before you start work

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Residential property

Home ownership now comes later in life

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Banking & financial disputes

Do payment processors wield too much power?

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Banking & financial disputes

Court of Appeal confirms bank’s wide discretion in determining “fair market value” for ‘repo’ trades...

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

One in a million? No, you’re only one in five.

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Employment law for employees

‘Strexit’- dealing with workplace, stress, depression and anxiety

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Banking & financial disputes

Drone related incidents – The costs for airlines

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Construction & Real estate disputes

Proceed with caution when offering professional advice as a favour

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Data Protection

Dear Santa…A Cautionary Data Privacy Tale

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FinTech

It’s beginning to look a lot like Crypto…

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Employment law for employees

The “Good Work Plan” heralds a new round of employment law reform for employers

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Are robots writing your will?

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Whenever, Wherever… no Shakira, you need to keep track.

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UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Taking tax online?

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Taking tax online?

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Residential property

Could a property ‘Logbook’ speed up the conveyancing process?

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Real Estate & Residential property

Could a property ‘Logbook’ speed up the conveyancing process?

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Corporate

The easiest way to avoid shareholder disputes

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Banking & financial disputes

High Court grants retrospective permission allowing use of disclosed documents to obtain US legal advice

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Residential property

What are the implications of renting out your driveway?

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Why giving money to UKIP might give you a large tax bill

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Commercial real estate & Construction & Real estate disputes

The new Electronic Communications Code – round 1 goes to the Operators

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Real Estate & Residential property

Downsizing? You may have no choice.

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Banking & financial disputes

Commercial Court dismisses allegations of fraud in connection with forex “demo accounts”

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Probate & Wills and succession planning

Why you will no longer need to swear when visiting your solicitor

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Corporate & Employment law for employees

Employment Update: The Real Living Wage

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Why you will no longer need to swear when visiting your solicitor

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Commercial

How to make friends and influence people … and not get fined!

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Real Estate & Residential property

(B)R you allowed Council Tax relief on a Holiday Let?

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Commercial disputes & Dispute Resolution

How to make friends and influence people … and not get fined!

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Banking & financial disputes

English High Court refuses to block enforcement of U.S. discovery order

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Contentious trusts & probate & Probate

Can my half-sister challenge our father’s will?

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Real Estate & Residential property

40% of young adults cannot afford to buy homes, even with a 10% deposit

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Government to push ahead with 3,770% increase in probate fees for the wealthiest estates

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Construction & Residential property

Who owns what if I buy a house with my friend?

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Corporate & Intellectual property

Six ways to avoid legal danger in a start-up

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Employment law for employees & Media & privacy & Media & Privacy

The use of non-disclosure agreements in an employment context

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Leave your estate to loved ones rather than up to chance

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Why the IHT nil rate band may be scant comfort for homeowners in the South...

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FinTech

It’s Blockchain your Honour

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Pension transfers may result in Inheritance Tax Charge

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Financial services & Private Equity

Is Blockchain technology set to revolutionise the art market?

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Real Estate & Residential property

Try before you buy?

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Careful estate planning can save you a princely sum

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Don’t e(stop) til you get enough

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Estate planning need not be taxing

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Sister (P)act 2: Back in the Co(habit)ation

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

HMRC home in on Airbnb tax affairs

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Real Estate & Residential property

A New Homes Ombudsman has been announced by government – but that’s about it!

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Real Estate & Residential property

Can it be right that average rents are 30% of a person’s income?

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Private Wealth & Tax disputes & investigations

HMRC plots a route to CGT success

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Bit-coining it in: HMRC waiting for cryptocurrency windfall?

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Lawyer legacy leaves large litigation liability

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Franklin my dear, I don’t give an (estate) plan

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Better to be pregnant this year rather than next?

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Real Estate & Residential property

Mortgage Fraud and Negligence – the case of Stoffel & Co v Grondona

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Executors may not realise they have an Income Tax liability

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Media & privacy & Private Wealth

UK Property held through a company may face increased scrutiny

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Wide ranging tax reforms suggested by the Lib Dems

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

HMRC error may mean over-payment of tax by non-resident trustees

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Real Estate & Residential property

Q. When is an extension not an extension? A. When it is a garden room...

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Real Estate & Residential property

Land Registry’s digitisation of Local Land Charges extends

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Business & Competition & antitrust

Ofcom has fined Royal Mail £50 million for abuse of dominance

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

Justice for the few

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Business & Intellectual property

Breaking Point for KitKat?

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Corporate & Financial services & Private Equity

ICOs vs. PE and VC Funding: Which Funding Model is Best for a Growing Business?

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Business & Intellectual property

World Cup 2018 – Celebrating success!

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Real Estate & Residential property

Evicting your tenant? Do so with caution

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Media & privacy & Private Wealth

The assault on secrecy/privacy marches on

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The subsoil beneath…

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Business & Competition & antitrust

4-to-3 mergers are never easy

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Corporate & Family and divorce & UK trusts, tax and estate planning

Cryptocurrency and divorce – are lawyers and the courts up to speed?

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Real Estate & Residential property

Could a Blockchain Land Registry be the way forward for England and Wales?

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Business & Data Protection

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – the GDPR implications

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Banking Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Robin Henry quoted in Independent on publication of RBS GRG report

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Business & Data Protection

GDPR – Smaller charities at risk

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Banking & financial disputes

FX client obtains pre-action disclosure order against bank in front-running claim

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Banking Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Wealth Manager held in breach of contract

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Banking Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Currency trader challenges FCA ban over LIBOR conduct

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

Law Commission to Review Law on Surrogacy

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Targeted Job Advertising – Age Discrimination?

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FinTech

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency in Divorce Proceedings

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson left her fortune to children she never had

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Worker entitled to backdated holiday pay

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Business & Business Immigration

Will Meghan join the queue at the new US Embassy?

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Real Estate & Residential property

Christmas has come early for first time buyers!

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Keep Britain Tidy

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Real Estate & Residential property

Be careful what you wish for

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Tribunal to consider employment status of former GB Olympian Jess Varnish

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

Special treatment – how can I get a “quickie divorce” like Billie?

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Banking Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Bank fraud compensation scheme floated

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Maternity Action reports huge increase in maternity discrimination

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Private Wealth & Tax & Estate Planning & Trusts

Crying wolf

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The Boiling Frog and Sustainability

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

Two year study shows divorce laws are not fit for purpose

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

Courts Head sets out next steps in digitisation of family justice

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

Lies, Damned Lies and Divorce

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Equal pay and construction

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Mental health problems force thousands out of work

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Construction & Real Estate

Consultation on changes to Construction Act

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Banking Litigation & Dispute Resolution

FinTech companies struggling to get customer data from banks may now have leverage

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Family & Divorce & Private Wealth

Retiring family judge uses final speech to slam legal aid cuts

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Residential service charges – Landlords beware your obligations

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Private Wealth & Wills & Succession Planning

Unsent text accepted as dead man’s Will by Australian court

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Race Discrimination and Statistics – the story from the Employment Tribunal

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Foster carer fights for worker status in potentially landmark case

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Banking & financial disputes

Financial Services matters

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Dispute Resolution & Employment law for employers

Employment Tribunal awards £10,000 for comment in birthday card

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Business & Intellectual property

Flossy the UKIP Lion

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Dispute Resolution & Real estate disputes

New Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims

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Business & Competition & antitrust

Commission fines Scania €880 million for participating in trucks cartel

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Corporate Recovery & Dispute Resolution & Restructuring & Insolvency

Interest in UK NPLs increases following Brexit

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Commercial disputes & Dispute Resolution

6 Degrees of Separation- Game of Thrones to Maradona

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Government to introduce right to flexible working from first day of employment

Can you compel your staff to get fully vaccinated and return to work?

A review of the post-Brexit UK financial sanctions regime – where are we now?

New mother awarded £185,000 after employer refused flexible working

Workplace Covid Testing and Mask-wearing

Equal Pay – Are there any risks in achieving parity?

THE IMPACT ON PHILANTHROPY AND CHARITIES WHEN ULTRA-WEALTHY DIVORCE

Oatly loses trademark battle over oat milk name

Artificial Intelligence and the Workplace

Reminder of further changes to the Furlough scheme

What are the limits on video surveillance in the workplace?

Supply Pain: Who is responsible for delays on luxury resi projects?

FCA extends date of Temporary Registration Regime for existing crypto-asset businesses: next steps

Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse – bribery claims proceed by way of arbitration

Never mind the ********. Here’s the lawyers

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Lessons for banks from subprime lender Amigo’s woes

Disputes over the proper administration of trusts and estates

Online financial scams: Google to vet advertisers following FCA threats

Complying with data laws when engaging with freelancers

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance banned from operating in the U.K. by FCA

Furlough changes from 1 July 2021: A REMINDER

New Digital Dispute Resolution Rules provide procedure for commercial disputes involving digital technology

US Office of Foreign Assets Control uses blockchain technology to surveil entities behind cryptocurrency activities

Clitheroe v Bond case: providing clarity for practitioners

Can ‘misgendering’ be a ‘philosophical belief’ under Equality Act?

UK data protection standards to be deemed adequate by the EU

Cryptoasset firms given extra time to register as few gain authorisation

Update on the Covid-19 temporary insolvency measures under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020

Government extends the moratorium preventing the eviction of commercial tenants until 25 March 2022

Ikea fined €1 million for illegal staff surveillance

How Stephen Hawking’s estate used his papers and office contents to settle millions in tax

Professor Stephen Hawking’s estate: Acceptance in Lieu in action

Amigo sub-prime lender scheme of arrangement rejected by court

Collyer Bristow instructed in HMRC -v- Wilkes : High Income Child Benefit Charge

Growth journey’s end – When billionaires divorce

Is Business travel now allowed? Deciphering the latest Covid-19 travel rules

Making a success of UK-US cross-border estate planning

Archegos fallout raises troubling questions over bank risk controls

First, sack all the IP lawyers.

UK – Tackling Tax Avoidance

Lack of transparency connected with shadow banking increases risks of losses for banks

Government to review landlord and tenant legislation

Arbitration and Foreign Governments: Peers debate transparency vs. confidentiality

MP’s call for a ban on ‘greenwashing’ in financial services firms

Fraud and asset recovery in the crypto space

Government asks landlords and tenants for views on commercial rents and Covid pandemic

LIBOR TRANSITION UPDATE: q1 2021

Right to disconnect – will this become a new legal right?

Bank of England & Treasury announce taskforce to explore UK Central Bank Digital Currency

Is your personal data safe on Zoom?

Insurance industry dips its toes into the digital assets space

Alfresco dining opens up – but what do you need to know?

Firmware cyber-attacks: the next big thing?

Credit Suisse overhauls management as it takes $4.7 billion hit on Archegos

Laurence Fox sued for defamation over ‘paedophile’ tweets

ENGLISH HIGH COURT STAYS COURT PROCEEDINGS IN FAVOUR OF ARBITRATION

Visa & Paypal announce changes supporting cryptocurrency transactions

When the subsidies move out, private equity moves in

Ministry of Justice releases its Quarterly Family Court Statistics

‘Tax Day’ – government continues its campaign to tackle non-compliance

Restructuring Plans under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 are insolvency proceedings under the...

The NFT revolution in the covid-era

How the US and UK tax systems work together

A post-Brexit guide to UK-Swiss disputes

How to take steps to offset climate litigation risks

Corporate residence of subsidiaries: Court of Appeal decision provides more questions than answers

Why a mistake in London is more of a blunder in New York

CFTC brings first ever enforcement action for cryptocurrency “pump-and-dump” scheme

What does the Budget 2021 mean for Residential property?

Looking at the Budget 2021 from a Private client perspective

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Arbitration clauses in ISDA master agreements

Harry and Meghan ceasing to be UK resident

The CMA’s Digital Markets Strategy: refreshed

Are banks under a duty to prevent Authorised Push Payment fraud?