Practice Areas

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• Criminal Litigation (including advising clients at the police station)
• Core principles of criminal liability
• Advising clients, including vulnerable clients, about the procedure and processes at the police station
• Dispute Resolution
• The principles, procedures, and processes involved in dispute resolution
• Property Practice
• Core knowledge areas of freehold real estate law and practice
• Core knowledge areas of leasehold real estate law and practice
• Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice
• Wills and Intestacy
• Probate and Administration Practice
• Core principles of trust law
• Business organisations, rules and procedures
• Funding options: debt and equity
• Types of security
• Distribution of profits and gains
• Ethics and Professional Conduct
• Financial records, information and accounting requirements
• Rights, duties, and powers of directors and shareholders of companies
• Company decision-making and meetings: procedural, disclosure and approval requirements
• Documentary, record-keeping, statutory filing and disclosure requirements
• Appointment and removal of directors
• Minority shareholder protection
• Procedures and authority under the Partnership Act 1890
• Common provisions in partnership agreements
• Options and procedures - CVA/IVA, bankruptcy, administration, fixed asset receivership, voluntary and compulsory liquidation
• Claw-back of assets for creditors – preferences, transactions at an undervalue, fraudulent and wrongful trading, setting aside a floating charge
• Order of priority for distribution to creditors
• Income Tax
• Capital Gains Tax
• Corporation Tax
• Value Added Tax
• Inheritance Tax
• Purpose and scope of anti-money laundering legislation including the international context
• Circumstances encountered in the course of practice where suspicion of money laundering should be reported in accordance with the legislation
• The appropriate person or body to whom suspicions should be reported, the appropriate time for such reports to be made, and the appropriate procedure to be followed
• Direct involvement and non-direct involvement offences, and defences to those offences under Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
• Due diligence requirements
• The financial services regulatory framework including authorisation, and how it applies to solicitors firms
• Recognition of relevant financial services issues, including the identification of specified investments, specified activities and relevant exemptions
• Application of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and related secondary legislation to the work of a solicitor