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October 2016

Legal protection of adults – an international comparison
The author's opening address to the Fourth World Congress on Adult Guardianship, held at Erkner, near Berlin, from 14-17 September 2016
The UPC post-Brexit: unified, “emmental-ed”, or dead?
Does Brexit mean the end of the UK's involvement in the Unified Patent Court? Not necessarily, whatever the outcome of the wider negotiations
Proof of purpose: IHT and APR
The tricky issues that can arise on claiming agricultural property relief for IHT in relation to let farm cottages
Bankruptcy consolidated: what do I need to know?
A Government solicitor's guide to help solicitors make the transition to the consolidating Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016
Dividends – compliant but challengeable?
The implications for Scottish companies of a decision striking down a Companies Act-compliant distribution on a challenge under an English insolvency provision
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In this issue

  • Legal protection of adults – an international comparison
  • The UPC post-Brexit: unified, “emmental-ed”, or dead?
  • Proof of purpose: IHT and APR
  • Bankruptcy consolidated: what do I need to know?
  • Dividends – compliant but challengeable?
  • FGM mandatory reporting: an example to follow?
  • Reading for pleasure
  • Opinion: Neil Hay
  • Book reviews
  • Profile
  • President's column
  • Next pieces of the jigsaw
  • People on the move
  • Beginner's guide
  • As simple as that?
  • Excellence in action
  • "That is not how we do it here"
  • Rebranding in the digital age
  • Brexit: Brussels in a holding pattern
  • Common areas: keep Pandora's box shut
  • Police: qualified experts?
  • Is that overprovision policy watertight?
  • Impact assessments still important
  • The vital paper trail
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Controlling interests: problem questions
  • Law under orders
  • Prisoner correspondence: a reminder
  • Law reform roundup
  • Society, Parliament revamp law student competition
  • Foundation for aspiration
  • Payment fraud: take five
  • Ask Ash
  • Better together?
  • Paralegal pointers

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