Shortly before Christmas the government issued its response to the consultation on unfair practices in the residential leasehold market.

I was recently introduced to Holly Porter who invited me to a fundraising dinner hosted by Chicks with Bricks to raise money for the Prince's Trust.

In August 2017, the prison sentence of Ian Paterson, the disgraced breast cancer surgeon, was increased to 20 years.

An article in The Times on 9 January raised concerns about the Church of England's claims to minerals beneath privately owned land.

The rules about HMOs are complex at the best of times with three different licensing regimes - mandatory HMO licensing, the optional "additional HMO licensing" and the sweeping option of selective licensing which affects most rented property.

Both sides claimed victory with the judgment in the challenge by retirement housing developers (McCarthy & Stone, Churchill Retirement Living, Renaissance Retirement and PegasusLife) ...

As we move through 2018, the global economy is in good form and the real estate market is buzzing with innovation. How will it play out over the next 12 months?

Now is the time to act if you may have offshore assets or income for which you haven't fully declared your UK income tax, capital gains tax or inheritance tax liabilities.

Government intervention is not what most founders are typically looking for. But, in The Leap 100 April poll on corporate tax, respondents suggested they were either satisfied ...

In its quest for increased tax revenues, HM Revenue & Customs (‘HMRC’) has launched an initiative to identify and recover unpaid tax on undeclared interest from offshore bank accounts. It has already used its extensive enquiry powers to force certain banks to disclose offshore accounts held by their UK customers, and more banks will follow.

The World Wide Web was created nearly 30 years ago and the private sector was quick to capitalise; there was the first secure online transaction in 1994 and the first internet banking service that same year.

As Bitcoin prices continue to rise, many are predicting an increase in the number of high value transactions that will accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.

A revised edition of the QCA Corporate Governance Code (the QCA Code) was published on 25 April.

Changes to strategic and director reporting will start to impact boards in 2019.

In a busy year for anti-money laundering (AML) policy and legislative developments, the Financial Conduct Authority has published its annual anti-money laundering report for the year ended 31 March 2018.

Successful challenges to arbitral awards made in London are rare. It is also unusual for the English courts to be asked to consider the scope of protections arising under a bilateral investment treaty.

AI has fundamentally altered how reputation is shaped, with AI-powered search engines now delivering authoritative-seeming summaries rather than traditional search results. From deepfakes and voice cloning to coordinated review bombing and bot-driven harassment campaigns, the threats are evolving rapidly—but so are the defensive tools available to those who understand how to deploy them strategically.

In his Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor announced that from 6 April 2008, taper relief and indexation relief will be withdrawn and Capital Gains Tax (CGT) charged at a flat rate of 18%. Whilst it is possible the proposal may never become law, the safest option is to assume it will.

Remainers and Brexiteers – from Tony Blair to Nigel Farage –acknowledge that leaving the European Union means we'll have to upgrade our relationships with other parts of the world.

Following its consultation (discussed in our November 2017 edition), the EU Commission has published a proposal for a 'targeted amendment' to the rules relating to supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) ...