Legal

If December is "the season to be jolly" then January is most certainly its antithesis. A combination of depressing weather, short days and the return to work mean the first month of the new year is widely considered to be our unhappiest month...

Expansion will help unlock over £800 million for communities across the UK

Global investor services group IQ-EQ has made Chris Marsden its new group general counsel and a member of the firm's executive leadership team

The number of UK investor visas issued falls 44 percent as Covid causes huge disruption to international travel...

The common practice in the art world of protecting clients’ confidentiality and shielding transactions with a cloak of secrecy has been challenged in a recent decision by the High Court (Hickox v. Dickinson [2020] EWHC 2520 (Ch)) which has resulted in a peek behind the normally closed doors of private art sales...

Joe Biden wants to reform the US tax system so that wealthy individuals contribute their “fair share” - a notion which is also part of the UK tax debate...

Plans to combat fraud and give businesses confidence in who they are working with have been announced by the UK government, with the launch of three consultations on reforms to the UK’s register of company information

At 11 pm on 31 December 2020, the Brexit transition period will come to an end, and with it, the legislation which currently governs jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement in children and divorce cases in UK

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has launched a consultation on a draft strategy for the legal services sector in England & Wales and is inviting others to say how they will also contribute to reshaping legal services to better meet the needs of society

The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), in conjunction with the Independent Schools Council (ISC) and the Independent Schools' Bursars Association (ISBA), has published an alert on the money laundering risks faced by independent schools