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Barrister struck off by Bar Standards Board owned Newzbin

7 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Newzbin2, an illegal file-sharing and download website that BT was ordered to block access to in October 2011, has been in the news regularly in the last year or so. Now it has been revealed that the barrister...

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OFT consults on draft guidance for estate agents and property developers

26 September 2011 | Richard John

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recently launched a consultation on draft guidance to estate agents and property developers, which aims to help businesses that handle purchases and sales of property...

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Good news for owners of French second homes

27 June 2011 | Shimon Shaw

It has been reported, in the Financial Times, that France has abandoned plans to introduce an annual tax on second homes owned by non-residents.  Good news for Brits with homes in France.  The French...

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Newspaper contempt referral refused in Goodwin privacy case – Goodwin v News Group Newspapers Ltd, High Court

17 June 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The High Court recently ruled that Sir Fred Goodwin could be named as the applicant for an injunction in a privacy case relating to an alleged affair with a colleague when working at the Royal Bank of...

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Juror gets eight months in jail for contempt of court for Facebook chat with defendant

17 June 2011 | Mark Weston

The Lord Chief Justice gave a speech in Belfast in November 2010 in which he specifically warned jurors about the risks of discussing a case online via social media, saying that it could easily be considered...

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Amendments to information required for annual returns

1 April 2011 | Emma Cameron

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced on 24 March that it plans to amend some of the information required in the annual returns filed by companies. The amendments are set out in...

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Most interesting Stamp Duty news

28 March 2011 | Shimon Shaw | 2 comments

I was going to call this simply "Stamp Duty news".  But that's not the most exciting topic ever.  Unless you are buying a house. Or unless you are me. So on to the news: 1.        ...

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Sausages!

18 March 2011 | Shimon Shaw

Those of you who remember That's Life will know how the title to this blog post is supposed to be pronounced.  Everyone else look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IMOSN0WYvg (at about 1.40 but the...

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Stamp Duty rant

4 March 2011 | Shimon Shaw | 2 comments

Why, why, why do newspapers continue to harp on about stamp duty planning and get it wrong?  It grates every time I read an article like the one (about a "stamp duty loophole") in a broadsheet last weekend...

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Free-to-air sports safe despite challenges – FIFA and UEFA v European Commission

21 February 2011 | Simon Weinberg

Paying to watch football on television has been in the news recently and has been the source of much controversy. Now the European General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge by FIFA and UEFA, the world...

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