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Louise Byrne |
DivorceGetting divorced these days is usually, and can be, fairly straightforward, particularly where each of the parties agrees that the marriage is over. Most difficulties arise where there are practical issues such as who is going to live where, what is going to happen with the children and who is going pay for what. |
Paul Beckett |
How Tax 'Time-bomb' Could Undermine Assisted SuicidesPaul Beckett pinpoints financial pitfall for offshore tax residents planning assisted dying One of the most divisive issues of our times, assisted suicide is defended and opposed with equal vehemence, and moral, ethical and legal arguments all fuel the debate over the right to 'self-determination'. |
Steven Coren |
Model AppealOld Court Chambers has recently helped to win permission to appeal from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, instructed by Speechly Bircham LLP on behalf of its client supermodel and businesswoman Elle Macpherson, in Simpson & another v Light House Living Limited & another. |
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Paul Beckett |
Fraudulent Transfers Act 1736 - Asset Protection?Several offshore jurisdictions which have enacted asset protection legislation. The concept is well known, but is very misleading. |
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Paul Beckett |
Offshore Trusts and Philanthropy - A Manx PerspectivePhilanthropy comes easily to the Manx, a people for whom class distinctions do not exist and whose shared history of poverty and want – now just something for the social studies text books – has left them with a keen sense of community. |
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Paul Beckett |
Human Rights of CompaniesThe Human Rights Act 2001 of the Isle of Man had been waiting in the wings for five years before it came on stage and took its first bow on 1 November 2006. Partly because of the delay and speculation about when it would come into force, and partly because of the increasingly dangerous times in which we live when to protect what we perceive to be our freedom we seem to be surrendering more and more of our civil liberties, the Act has come to be regarded as a new dawn. |
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Paul Beckett |
Company Officers (Disqualification) Act 2009 (“CODA”)The Companies Act 1992 introduced the concept: Section 26 provided that the FSC could apply to the Court for an Order declaring an individual unfit |
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Paul Beckett |
Company Trust FusionThe decision of Deemster Kerruish sitting in the Isle of Man High Court of Justice on 19 September 2002 in Re Poyiadjis 2001-03 MLR 316 establishes a new Manx equitable principle which will have wide-ranging effects and which has broadened the area of cover afforded by asset protective structures. |
