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The idea of introducing an anti-avoidance rule was first mooted by Gordon Brown but dropped, and then resurrected by the coalition in December 2010 when it asked Graham Aaronson QC to consider whether a general anti-avoidance rule (a GAAR) should be introduced in the UK.

This question was recently put before Guernsey’s Employment and Discrimination Tribunal in an action brought by what even it describes as a "difficult employee".

Currently, the only creditor-driven insolvency process for a Jersey company are désastre proceedings, where the Viscount (the head of the executive arm of the courts of Jersey)...

In this important decision, the Board carried out a detailed analysis of authorities in a wide range of common law jurisdictions...

As far as the parties were concerned, the main issue was to succeed in their application to rectify the trust, i.e. to correct and rewrite its drafting to bring it back into line with the original intention behind it.

Under Article 77A of the Employment (Jersey) Law 2003 where the Employment Tribunal finds that an employee was unfairly dismissed, it has the power to award compensation.

There has been much local comment and some criticism of the Jersey Employment Tribunal since 8 January this year, when the Royal Court handed down a judgment which overturned a decision on unfair dismissal made by the Tribunal in July 2013.

Previously in the case of "In the matter of the representation of the Sanne Trust Company Limited", the Royal Court held that steps may be taken to protect the identity of minors and the privacy of the trust arrangements.

Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) were made available to Jersey residents when the Capacity and Self Determination (Jersey) Law 2016 came into force in October 2018.

A recent study by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee has found that the number of cohabiting couples in England and Wales is rising, with around 3.6 million cohabiting couples...

The enactment of the Security Interests (Jersey) Law 2012 (the 'SIJL') marked a watershed moment for secured finance in Jersey.

The recent case of Cafe de Lecq Limited v R A Rossborough (Insurance Brokers) Limited amounted to a David v Goliath battle for the insurance world in Jersey.

Conveyancer is a professional within a law firm who deals with the act of transferring (or 'conveying') ownership (title) of a property and / or land from one party to another.

The latest survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has revealed a surge in demand for UK property and the fastest rise in house prices since their peak of seven years ago and a surge in demand for UK property.

The Royal Court of Jersey has dismissed the first appeal against a decision of the Jersey Comptroller of Taxes.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal and confirmed the requirement upon the appellant, Volaw Trust, to disclose the requested information to a foreign tax authority pursuant to regulation 3 of the Taxation (Exchange of Information with Third Countries) (Jersey) Regulations 2008 ("ReguIations"),.

Collas Crill's Carl Ashcroft and Emma Parr consider the impact of Jersey's new Civil Partnerships law on island employers.