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Property Litigation Partner, Colin Young

This week marks 'Family Business Week' - a week-long celebration championing the central role

The Work Rights Centre recently published an insightful report on the exploitation of migrant workers. The report identifies that 89% of referrals under the UK’s National Referral Mechanism (‘NRM’) – the

This week marks 'Family Business Week' - a week-long celebration championing the central role family-owned businesses

The Jersey Court of Appeal recently considered the scope of the court's supervisory jurisdiction over trusts. 

The decision concerns Article 51 of the Jersey Trust Law 1984 (as amended), but may be of

Landowners who sell off part of their land to housebuilders are often concerned about the sold off land being overdeveloped.  

The basis of the landowner’s concern is usually as follows: (1) will the

The enterprise investment scheme ("EIS") is a collection of parallel income tax and capital gains tax ("CGT") reliefs that can apply to investments in companies that carry on a qualifying trade.  The scheme is

Investors' relief ("IR") can save an individual investor up to £1 million by reducing the rate of capital gains tax ("CGT") payable by on sales of their qualifying shares from 20% to 10%. 

IR combines

Business assets disposal relief ("BADR") was formerly known as entrepreneurs' relief ("ER").  It is a capital gains tax ("CGT") relief which can apply where an individual makes a "material disposal" of "business

Leasehold reform has been on the agenda for reform for several years.  We have reviewed reports, recommendations and government announcements and have reported on promises for reform, but, until now, we have not

The last five years have seen unprecedented changes in the way in which we live, work and socialise.  These changes, together with a busy agenda of statutory reform, including the proposals for a new Leasehold

Those with an interest in Landlord and Tenant legislation generally, and enfranchisement in particular, will have approached the King’s Speech delivered today with a heightened sense of interest, and a hope for

Partner, Eleanor Sepanski pens a letter to the Editor of The Financial Times on the topic of how char­it­able found­a­tions dis­trib­ute their assets and whether they could be doing

There has been a lot of media interest in the topic of stolen art and artefacts in recent months and figures from the Art Loss Register show that 65,000 items are currently missing from museums around the world. But

The long-running case of Potanina v Potanin is being heard at the Supreme Court this week on the issue of whether a wife should be granted permission to apply for financial relief in England in circumstances in which

On 30 October 2023 UK Visas and Immigration published their much anticipated new guidance on eVisas. Millions of visa holders already prove their status through eVisas (such as those on