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Progress is Slow on Lifetime Tenancies Vs Fixed Term Tenancies

13th November 2018
Following a recent green paper on housing, Joanne Young, Legal Director in the Property Litigation Team at Ashfords LLP, specialising in housing management, explains why housing officials are taking one forward and two steps back. In November 2010 the Con-Lib Coalition Government, still relatively fresh from their election victory and full of determination to effect […]
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Probate Fee Hike: Risky Move?

12th November 2018
Below, Andrew Wilkinson, will dispute specialist at Shakespeare Martineau, comments for Lawyer Monthly on the Government’s move to increase probate fees. The Government is giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Described as a ‘stealth death tax’ this has come about because the court system is underfunded and while increased investment should […]
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The Secret of Why Trump Won't Release His Taxes

12th November 2018
President Trump has constructed a narrative in which he clawed his way to the top by sheer will. The New York Times released a story that calls that narrative into question. Were Trump’s financial successes heavily funded by his father Fred?
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How the Legalisation of Sports Betting Is Set to Change the US

9th November 2018
In May of this year, a huge change came about in the betting industry in the US. The Supreme Court cleared the way for individual states to legalize sports betting. Since 1992, a federal law was in place that had previously prohibited the majority of states from authorizing sports betting. This news was a long […]
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5 Top Tips for Writing Law School Essays

8th November 2018
Essay writing is hard as it is; now you’re in law school and it seems almost impossible to get it done. Continuing on with Lawyer Monthly’s Law School & Career features, Francine Ryan, lecturer in law and member of the Open Justice team at the Open University, provides Lawyer Monthly with the her top tips […]
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High Rates and Brexit Doubts Cause Company Failure

7th November 2018
Official figures from the recently released Insolvency Service report shows a 19% rise in UK company insolvencies, the highest quarterly level in more than four years. The report has revealed that the number of companies becoming insolvent grew at the highest rate since 2009 during the third quarter of 2018. The construction sector has been […]
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The Chancellor’s Increase to NI: The Devil Is in the Detail

7th November 2018
There was much fanfare last week when the Chancellor announced he would honour the Conservative manifesto pledge to raise the income tax threshold – bringing the lower rate to £12,500, and the higher rate to £50,000 – and he would actually bring this forward a year to be effective from April 2019. However, as is […]
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Justice Funding Slashed By 27% Over 10 Years

6th November 2018
New research commissioned by the Bar Council reveals the full scale of a decade of dis-investment in justice and argues that decisions to make wholesale budget cuts cannot be blamed on austerity measures alone. Produced by Professor Martin Chalkley for Justice Week, the research shows that a 27% real term cut to Ministry of Justice […]
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Facebook’s Disappointing Q3 Results & Regulatory Challenges Ahead

6th November 2018
Following on from recent news regarding facebook’s poor Q318 results, Jon Tipple, Chief Strategy Officer, Worldwide at FutureBrand, discusses further bad news for the firm. Facebook’s disappointing Q3 results – despite strong earnings, the social media giant failed to reach analysts’ estimates on revenue, daily active users and monthly active users – reflect some difficult […]
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Separating Morality from Legality, and Why Yachting Has the Moral High Ground

5th November 2018
Following the disclosure of the ‘Paradise Papers’ in 2017, an onslaught of misguided moral righteousness resulted, villainising the wealthy for using perfectly legal means of investing their wealth in offshore corporations in order to achieve tax efficiency. In the process, many august journals blurred the lines between entirely legal tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion. […]
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