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The Powers of Attorney Act has been passed by Parliament in an effort to modernise the process for making and registering lasting powers of attorney (LPAs)

PwC has been voted the UK’s number one graduate employer in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers survey 2023. The ranking is based on interviews with over 13,000 final year students at 32 universities across the UK

The Federation of Law Societies of Canada is challenging provisions of the country's Income Tax Act that require legal counsel to report confidential information about their client’s activities to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)

This Tuesday (19/09/2023) saw the close of London Fashion Week, where plenty of designers were keen to walk the sustainability walk down the runway

Over half (54 percent) of consumers would stop buying from a company if they were found to have been misleading in their sustainability claims, research from KPMG UK has found

On Tuesday 17 October members of the family office and wealth management sector will come together for the annual Grouse & Grape Luncheon at Spencer House in West London, held in support of the charity Cure Parkinson’s

Lifetime gifting is often used by individuals to give away assets, whether that might be small amounts of cash or personal items, to larger gifts such as property, art or wine collections. Lifetime gifts can also include selling something at an undervalue

Inheritance tax (IHT) receipts for April to August 2023 were £3.2 billion - £0.3 billion higher than the same period a year earlier - HMRC data has revealed

The world is falling dangerously short of the ambition that is needed to secure a safe future climate, according to new analysis by PwC

The summer of 2023 has brought much media attention to the topic of banking so-called politically exposed persons (PEPs), as well as the introduction of new legislation in the UK to address the problem of PEP bank account closures through tighter regulation, coupled with reviewing financial institutions’ (FI’s) compliance with existing rules. With the end of the year drawing closer, it remains to be seen how much practical change these reforms will bring...