Stuart Adams
Stuart Adams is an associate in the private client team at Mishcon de Reya, specialising in advising UK and international families and entrepreneurs as well as family offices, trust companies and other institutions which assist them.
FeatureUnder review
Private Client Section committee member Stuart Adams reviews a new edition of an established title on trusts, which is packed with useful information
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Joining the DOTAS
Stuart Adams and Nova Maxwell look at how the government has widened the disclosure of tax avoidance schemes regime with reference to inheritance tax
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RTC: are you ready for the September deadline?
A new legal obligation, the ‘requirement to correct’ (the RTC) requires taxpayers with outstanding offshore tax non-compliance to correct the position before 30 September 2018.
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Guilt by association
As of 30 September, there is a corporate offence of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion. This brings a risk of criminal liability to solicitors’ firms for not only their employees’ actions, but also the actions of others with whom they are associated. Stuart Adams explains.
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Private Client Section annual conference 2017: Introduction
Private Client Section committee member Stuart Adams rounds up the highlights of the Section’s annual conference, held in London on 30 June, and introduces our conference special edition
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Criminal Finances Act 2017: update and new practice note
The Criminal Finances Act 2017, in force from 30 September, introduces a new criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. Stuart Adams provides an update
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New criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
A new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion comes into force on 30 September - yet many still seem not to know about it. In advance of a longer article in the November edition of PS, Stuart Adams explains why private client practitioners must ...
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Helping hands
Stuart Adams reviews a new title from the Law Society on all aspects of contentious probate work
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Spotlight: Mehjoo v (1) Harben Barker (a firm), (2) Harben Barker Ltd
Court of Appeal overturns Mehjoo decision on tax advice.
