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LAWYER'S OPINION
The Personal Representative in Probate Claims
The position of the personal representative is a difficult and dangerous one – dangerous in that getting it wrong involves an adverse costs order, sometimes personally against the PR (see Shovelar v Lane [2011] 4 All ER 669).
ELDERLY CLIENT
Discharge from hospital and NHS continuing care (2)
Background
It is very common for the frail elderly to be admitted to hospital for bony injuries following a fall and to be treated by an orthopaedic surgeon. The orthopaedic surgeon will treat the bony injury and having done so to the point where the patient can no longer benefit from in-patient care, may consider that they are ready for discharge.
SPEAKERS' CORNER
'Tis the Season......
Season’s Greetings
As the Christmas season beckons and festive cheer is the order of the day, it is a time to eat, drink, be merry and revel in the bonhomie which surrounds this time of year. It’s a time to nurture our relationships with kith and kin, and take comfort and joy from being at the bosom of our wider families whom we may see just once a year. It is a time to restore peace and goodwill and regain much of the closeness which our busy lives often restrict.
FINANCE & INVESTMENTS
Workplace Pension Reform (WPR)
This information is based on draft legislation which may change.
In 2012, workplace pensions reforms (WPR) will be introduced which will impose duties on employers to make mandatory pension provision for employees.
Employers will have to automatically include certain employees in a suitable pension scheme within a timescale.
The scheme must pass a quality test.
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
Do you want to increase your firm’s profits by 16%?
Is everyone in your firm commercially aware?
Solicitors have always focused on providing clients with the services they want rather than thinking about whether they have maximised their own return from the firm. The most profitable firms are clearly providing clients with the service they want while at the same time having a clear understanding of how they are going to maximise profits.
WORKING SMARTER
How Secure is your data?
So you think you have it all sorted when you put the password on your laptop. How horrified would you be that with a screwdriver and a few cables I could unscrew your hard drive and access all your files?
PRIVATE CLIENT GLOSSARY SEE COMPLETE LIST
Nil Rate Band
The NRB is a key part of IHT. There are three key rates of tax for IHT:
- 0%
- 20% and
- 40%
The value of the 0% band is known as the NIL RATE BAND (NRB) for the obvious reason that the rate of tax on that band of value is 0%. It is important to note that it is not an exemption but a 0% rate of tax. This is of significance when making chargeable transfers which are for less than the NRB where the fact that it is a chargeable transfer for IHT (even though there will be no IHT payable) matters for eligibility for s.260 TCGA 1992 hold-over relief.
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