Private Companies - Steve Taylor, St James Valuation
How do you value a small private company where each party is a shareholder?
Do you apply the share value at the date of separation or the date of divorce?
What if the two differ (wildly)?
School fees - Adam Ardrey, Optimum Advocates
Where one party has wanted children to attend a private school and the other party has not, to what extent can you offset school fees against any aliment and financial provision?
School fees (NTS) - Adam Ardrey, Optimum Advocates
Where one party has wanted children to attend a private school and the other party has not, to what extent can you offset school fees against any aliment and financial provision?
Special circumstances - Frank Burr, Arnot Manderson Advocates
If a business is commenced pre-marriage but during cohabitation, when will “special circumstances" arguments be successful in securing a share for the non-owning party?
Avoidance - Francis Fitzpatrick QC, 11 New Square
Cutting through the controversy and hullabaloo, how is the concept of tax avoidance developing internationally and in the EU?
EBT - David Craddock, David Craddock Consultancy
What are the latest ideas and innovations around tax-efficient structures for EBTs and share awards and why are they so significant for practice?
Inferences - Steven Gee QC, Monckton Chambers
How willing is the Court to accept inferences when pleading fraud, because the victim may not know any - or many - of the facts?
How strong should the case be before starting out?
Offshore trusts - Andrew Onslow QC, 3 Verulam Buildings
Mezhprom v. Pugachev: can fraudsters safely protect their assets in offshore trusts?
Which methods and techniques will flush them out?
DOL - Julia Cheetham QC, Deans Court Chambers
How do you secure the best outcome, for children and young people needing secure
welfare placements?
What are the limits to the Court’s powers to make DoL orders?
Contempt, damages and privilege - Jeffrey Gruder QC, Essex Court Chambers
How has Ablyazov litigation changed existing thinking on contempt, damages and privilege?
How can you expect the judges to react?
