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Implications of Income Tax Charge on Estate Planning

Overview In the Pre-Budget Report of December 2003 the Chancellor Gordon Brown announced proposals to levy an Income Tax charge from 6th April 2005 in those circumstances where the transferor of an asset retains and interest or continues to benefit f...

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Outsourcing in China: Five Basics for Reducing Risk

Many small and medium sized companies that engage in OEM manufacturing/outsourcing in China fail to take the steps necessary to protect themselves. When problems arise, they can do little or nothing to protect themselves because they have no legal ba...

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An Example Of A Lawsuit Where A Female Pedestrian Was Paid Over $1.0 Million

There are many ways in which drivers can become distracted, confused or disoriented. The difficulty, clearly, is that they control a multi-ton piece of machinery that can bring about permanent harm, especially to pedestrians. And it can happen in a m...

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Lawsuit Alleges Child Sustained Brain Damage Because of Pediatrician's Group B Strep Diagnosis Delay

A pregnant woman who is a carrier of the Group b strep can pass on the bacteria to her baby during labor even when the mother does not present any symptoms. Research demonstrate that between about 25% of expecting mothers have group b strep. If there...

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A Guide to Changes in UK Employment Law - 2010

The following areas of employment law have been subjected to change; GP sick notes, paternity leave allowances, maternity; paternity and adoption pay awards, pension age, data protection, requesting study leave and trade union blacklisting. This arti...

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Don't Let Demanding Landlords Win Unfair Leasehold Extension Valuations

You began the lease extension process for your flat, but only now are you realising quite how complicated it is and are starting to wish you hadn't bothered. To start with, everything went smoothly. Friends pitched in, neighbours added their bi...

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Why Drug Abuse is Rampant

Why Drug Abuse is Rampant by: Karen Nodalo In almost all over the countries across the world, drug trafficking issues are dealt with and are the most difficult case to resolve. Every year, the rate of drug abuse cases and trafficking has been m...

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General Facts about Employment Discrimination

Each Employment Discrimination case is different. That is why you must contact an attorney to see if you have any rights. But all Employment Discrimination cases share some common traits. This Article discusses some of those traits. To prove an Emplo...

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Pennsylvania Automobile Insurance laws.

Here are the important highlights of the Pennsylvania automobile insurance law, more formally called, the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law:1) When purchasing a new policy after 1990, your insurance company must notify you, in w...

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How to Prosecute Libel and Slander in the UK

Defamation of character can be a serious business in the UK. But what exactly is slander? And what is libel? Both are defined as a false statement made by one individual about another individual with the intent to harm defamed persons reputation in s...

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