Law Society Gazette 23 March 2015

Tax evasion enablers face penalties

The government is to create a strict liability offence of offshore tax evasion despite the reservations of bodies such as the Law Society. In a statement following the budget, Danny Alexander MP, chief secretary to the Treasury, said professionals who ‘enable’ evasion would face the same penalty.

17 March 2005

Panel politics

The Gazette’s pre-general election debate – featuring a panel including Lord Falconer, the lord chancellor, and opposition legal affairs spokesmen Dominic Grieve for the Conservatives and David Heath for the Liberal Democrats – takes place in Stationers’ Hall, London, next week.

22 March 1995

Sex change

The first transsexual discrimination case has gone to the European Court of Justice. A person known as P alleges Cornwall County Council said they would renew their contract when she was a man, but changed their minds when she had a sex change.

19 March 1975

Courtesy please

I have been concerned for some time at the attitude adopted by some solicitors in writing letters giving other solicitors threats of action against their clients if matters are not dealt with within a certain time period. This time period seems to be cut down most drastically and does not take into account delays often occasioned in the post, and the work habits of the profession generally.  

March 1965

Illegitimate persons

For a variety of reasons (including the danger of unmeritorious or fraudulent claims and the extreme difficulty of providing proof of parentage in many such cases), the Council consider that it would be undesirable to equate illegitimate children with legitimate children for all succession purposes, but that in certain limited cases there should be means of relieving hardship.

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