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Mint conditions
The third edition of the Standard Commercial Property Conditions will soon be released. Warren Gordon provides a round-up of some of the key changes from the previous edition
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Watching brief
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is set to make major changes to regulation in the legal sector this spring. Michael Garson outlines the context for the change agenda and the particular issues around conveyancing
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Licence to bill
An existing client comes to you with a big idea: to buy a pub. You want to take the work, but should you? Tariq Philips looks at how to make the decision, how to quote for the work, and some of the unusual elements of transactions to purchase licensed premises
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Who do you know?
David Gilroy explains how effective client relationship management can help you keep and win clients, and how to get it right in practice
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Home and away
Clients may not realise how complicated it can be to buy or inherit a property abroad. Jo Summers looks at the issues involved and the impact of the new EU regulation on succession
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Check, please
Sarah Ellison and Eleanor Murray outline the new ‘right to rent’ checks, introduced by the Immigration Act 2014, and explain what landlords, agents and those subletting need to do to comply
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Opinion
Change afoot
Ian White explains how members can help the committee further build the Property Section to meet the evolving needs of property solicitors
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Person
Dawson Cornwell - Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE, QC (Hon)
Partner and Head of Children Department
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Analysis
Going it alone
Lesley discusses a recent First-tier Tribunal which saw executors who had chosen to administer an estate without professional advice left with personal liability for an income tax bill that they were unable to settle from the estate
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Strategies for e-security: how to mitigate the risk of 'phishing' attacks
The use of online services by lawyers, tax agents and financial advisers to handle their clients’ financial affairs is rapidly increasing. Nicholas Milner, practice advice solicitor at the Law Society looks at the steps you can take to protect your firm from online ‘phishing’ attacks.