Money, Property and Tax

• A Trustee Can Be Questioned After He Has Made Prima Facie Case For Exercise of Lien

• Trust case where trustee given chance to exercise lien subject to beneficiaries right to question the right

• A Vital Decision Which Affects Us All

• European Court makes vital decision about ciommunity waters and dredging

• Administrators Lose To City Council

• Rates run up during a period of administrators are payable as expenses by the administrators

• Administrators Win On Claims Management Costs

• Insurers take on administrators and lose

• Agassi Loses Final Set

• House of Lords smashes Agassi lob

• Age Discrimination Rules Delayed for Pensions

• Government gives pension companies more time

• Agreement About Maintenance Survives Death

• Ex-wife wins surprising victory against second wife

• Alarming Bankruptcy Case Upsets Divorce Lawyers

• If this case is right, no ex-wife is safe!

• Are LPAs Good For Clients?

• Solicitors for the Elderly see some advantages to Lasting Powers of Attorney

• Aussie Companies and UK Courts

• Can an English court deal with an Aussie company?

• Bailiffs Have Their Collars felt

• Government goes after unscrupulous bailiffs

• Bankrupt Hiding Assets Does Have Some Rights

• Notice has to be given when seeking committal of bankrupt

• Bankrupt on Benefits - Tough!

• benfit Claimant's Bankruptcy no defence from government

• Banks Feel Government Wrath At Last?

• The government takes up the cudgel on behalf of banks' debtors

• Banks Have Money Laundering Problems Too

• Bank Stops suspected money laundering transaction - what to tell the complaining customer?

• Barristers' Tax Guidance

• Bar Council explains Tax Rules

• Boiler Room Scammers Wound Up

• At long last the Revenue get thrown off stage

• Business Advice Rationalised

• Government improves business advisory services by reducing them

• Cadburys Loses Tax Case

• Corporate Tax case falters and fails.

• Cayman Island Attorney General Can Intervene

• In an issue of general public importance the Attorney General could appropriately be granted leave to intervene

• Cheques to be Better Controlled?

• Will this Act cause bank Charges to rise?

• Company Reform Benefits Small Businesses

• Government boasts of company reforms for small businesses.

• Competition Law, The EU and UK Courts Considered by SPR

• SPR article about the way the EU Commission and the UK courts inter-relate on competition law matters

• Compound Interest Is Only Justice, Says HL

• Years of tradition over-ruled in grant of compound interest in mistake case

• Compulsory Rehab for Nuisance Neighbours

• Government to brainwash your nasty neighbour?

• Constructive Trusts - Oral Agreement

• Constructive Trusts Case - Payer takes most

• Consumer Credit Act Commencement Plan

• Detailed Planning for Consumer Credit Act

• Consumer Credit Agreements And Public Photocopiers Considered

• Is there a consumer credit agreement if there is no liability to pay anything?

• Consumer Minister Cracks Down On Mis-Selling!

• Minister Tackles Mis-Selling! How is that for hypocrisy?

• Consumers Get More Rights

• New Consumer Credit Act Takes Off

• Consumers To Be Leaders

• Government to consult consumers - another con?

• Consumers' International Rights

• Credit card companies swoon

• Corporation Wins Euro Tax Battle

• Corporation Tax Ruling we have all been waiting for.

• Court Scrutinises Liquidators' Remuneration

• How far can the Court go in questioning liquidators' remuneration?

• Court of Appeal Taxes Pension Benefit

• Nothing helps pensiuoners in this case.

• Credit Card Penalties Get Yellow Card

• OFT threatens action against Credit Card companies which impose unreasonable penalties.

• Cross Border Consumers Helped

• EU to help consumers avoid scams

• Customs Win Car Seizure Case

• Basically they didn't believe him and so HMRC were entitled to keep his car - Lawindexpro Summary

• Debenture Holder's Priority in Liquidation

• Debenture Holder's priority considered after pre-liquidation payment

• Debtors Get Help

• Expanded assistance for debtors

• Defeat For Tax Man On Tax Reclaim

• Revenue fail to press for early limitation period

• Director's Car and Input Tax

• The Revenue defeated over Director's Car

• Door To Door Protection

• Better deal fro consumers caught by door-to-door salesmen

• Duty to Provide NI Number

• No NI Number disclosed, no benefits

• EEA Nationals Have Benefits Restricted

• GOvernment acts to restrict rights of EEA nationals to benefits

• EU Ruling on Taxation of Companies

• EU blocks another tax saving scheme

• Employers Forced To Give Pensions?

• Pension bonanza??

• European Decision About UK Pension Support Schemes

• UK Government pension protection scheme criticised by EU court

• Executors Judge Shows Common Sense

• Law Society claims common sense victory in case about LLP executors.

• FSA Information Confidential or Not?

• If it is your information, can you disclose it?

• FSA Mis-Applies It's Penalties

• FSA has it's bite muzzled

• Failed Asylum Seekers Seek Help

• Local authorities have prime responsibilty for failed asylum seekers

• Final LPA Forms and Regs, At Last

• Only 6 weeks to go and they publish the forms and regulations, almost.

• Foreign Bankruptcy Proceedings Have Priority?

• High Court Judge decides which bankruptcy court has precedence

• Government Loses Benefits Overpayment To Bankrupt

• Government shocked by loss of overpaid benefits after bankruptcy

• HMRC Back Taxes Win

• The Revenue win a majoe victory

• HMRC IHT Newsletter

• Latest advice from HMRC about IHT

• HMRC Interest Rates Rise

• Tax Rates for late tax increase from 6th September

• Holding Out As Partner Not Accepting Liability for VAT

• People who sign VAT forms but are not actually partners are not liable

• Home Credit Market Opened Up

• Home credit schemes to be monitored at last

• Homeless Person Can Be Denied Benefits

• Loss of disability benefit through homelessness is not breach of human rights

• Illegality Leads To Unenforceability

• Just goes to show that gambling debts are enforceable unless you do it wrong

• Immigration and Benefits

• benefits for international applicants

• Inheritance Tax Newsletter

• Latest IHT Newsletter from Revenue

• Insolvency Practitioners In Government Sights

• Government starts to lean on Insolvency Practitioners

• Insurers Lose on Disclosure of Old Information

• A blow for insurers in case about non-disclosure

• Internet Shopping Encouraged

• OFT helps with internet shopping

• Kenyan Judgment Enforcement

• Privy Council rules on enforecement of kenyan judgment with Isle of Man assets

• Killers Inheritance Law Changed

• Children helped in inheritance law changes

• Late Consultation About New Powers

• Government wakes up to is new EU consumer protection powers

• Latest Anti-Robbery Plan - Privacy Spaces

• Government to draw boxes on floor around ATM's

• Law Society Lashes Out At Chancellor

• The Finance Bill needs changes to prevent Trust Law chaos

• Law Centre the New Black?

• Law centres Get the Red Carpet Treatment

• Law Society Attacks Budget on Trusts

• The latest about the Budget and Trusts - including Law Society survey

• MOT Fees Go UP

• New computer system sends MOT fees higher

• Mayflower Theatre VAT Decision

• At long last the Revenue get thrown off stage

• Millions Of Wills To Review

• Government Trust Law Blunder Causes Chaos

• Misleading Ads Policed

• OFT Consults on Guidance to Prevent Misleading Ads

• NHS To Pay for Foreign Health

• Should the NHS fund foreign treatment?

• New All-Powerful Watchdog

• All powerful watchdog - is it too big?

• New Arrangements for Tribunals

• Will lowering the standards of tribunal chairs result from this Act?

• New Contractors' Tax Guidance

• INland Revenue revamps rules about taxing contractors

• New IHT Forms In Use

• IHT forms change in Scotland and England and Wales

• New Rules about Computer Tax Breaks

• Computer tax exemption goes

• New Trust Rules Changed Again

• The Chancellor makes changes to Trust rules, but not enough

• OFT Takes on Scammers

• Consumers warned about the most common scams

• Official Solicitor Changes

• The Official Solicitor to divest self of some trust duties.

• Old Rule Stops Killer's Claim

• Manslaughter of husband stops wife's pension claim

• Paying Fines in Legal Tender

• How to pay your fine legally

• Payment Protection Insurance to be Investigated At Last

• Give the government your horror stories about Payment Protection Insurance

• Payment Protection Scams

• Government realises what we have all known for years - payment protection policies can stink

• Pension Appeal Procedure To Be Strictly Followed

• Pension Appeal Procedure To Be Strictly Followed - Even if you don't know it

• Pension Scheme Winding Up - Gender Issues

• It pensions - its got to be boring - but it matters to some of these pensioners, whatever their sex

• Pensions A - Day Arrives

• Pensions Reforms come into effect on A-Day

• Pet Sales Enforcement

• Government enforces pet sales rules

• Possesion Proceedings Stats 2006

• Not good Possession Stats

• Probate Action By Family Dependant?

• Will dispute brought by dependant, OK?

• Receivers Not Adversely Affected by CPR

• Receivers can keep their full costs despite CPR

• Relief In Small Company Tax case

• House of Lords holds in favour of taxpayers - but what if they had not been married, just living together?

• Repairing Goods Not Going Far Enough

• House of Lords shows common sense in sale of goods case

• Repossessions Up Again

• Latest stats show rise in repossessions

• Revenue Can't Be Sued For Negligence?

• HMRC wins negligence case

• Revenue Hammer Message Home - Don't Smuggle or else

• Customes reiterate need for moderation

• Revenue Revises Share Option Guidance

• HMRC issues new guidance

• Revenue Takes on Carousel Fraud and Loses

• International VAT fraud defeats Inland Revenue

• SDLT Changes To Be Mainly On Line

• Revenue announces changes to SDLT rules.

• Schemes of Arrangements and Future Changes Businesses

• Schemes of Arrangement subject to future changes

• Solicitor Loses Privilege Case to Revenue Commissioners

• Revenue Commissioners have bigger powers than Revenue to demand papers from solicitors

• TV Phone In Stopped In Europe

• Too much TV phone in is just too much

• Takeover Code Amendments Come Into Force

• Berwin Leighton Paisner explain takeover code

• Tax Evasion Leads to Money Laundering

• If you shouldn't have it you launder it when you move it

• Tenancy in Common Defeats Trusteee in Bankruptcy

• Bankrupt's windfall not fall into hands of his trustee in bankruptcy

• UKLawyers Archive of Money, Property and Tax Materials - March 2006

• The collection of all the Money, Property and Tax materials published by us in March 2006

• VAT Fraud - Joint and Several Liability

• VAT Fraud - who is liable for the VAT?

• VAT Fraud and the Innocent

• European Court of Justice fair with innocent traders involved in VAT fraud

• VAT and the Nectar Trader

• VAT man loses Nectar points

• Voluntary Arrangements And Guarantors

• Who gets priority in Voluntary Arrangements - Guarantors or Creditors?

• Volunteers On Benefits Better Off

• Free lunches to encourage unemployed volunteers

• Want to Know About Taxes on Depreciation?

• Long tax battle success for big name companies is blow to government. Only recently reported.

• What To Do In Partnership Insolvency?

• Chasing more than one bankrupt partner

• Winter Fuel Payment Reminder

• Government encourages take up of winter fuel payments

• Without Prejudice Letters Not Always Privileged

• Can a Without Prejudice letter acknowledge a debt and so extend the limitation period?