December 9th 2014
The limitations on the capability of minority groups within the
EP posturing as democratic voices has been exposed, but
unfortunately not nipped in the bud.
The European Parliament has limited, if not zero legal capacity
to override the Treaties...
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November 19th 2014
Care is needed when registering as an individual holiday
lettings business in France.
Some "bar stool" advisers even believe that the "wheeze" of
getting the VAT back by so doing, can be achieved without French
administrative...
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November 18th 2014
Few people bother to work out what actually happens in a Finance
Centre, preferring to baulk at narcissistic journalistic
drivel about tax evasion. Few people go further and question the
absolute hypotheses upon which such journalism has...
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November 10th 2014
Case référence : N° 12MA00676 Cour d'Appel de Marseille
4ème Chambre 7 octobre, 2014.
Once again the French administration have been slapped
across the face by their own courts, who did not need to refer to
the CJEU in...
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August 13th 2014
Has your solicitor, or your French avocat or notary proposed
that you sign a new will on the basis that you are a British
national, and that you can opt for the law of your nationality in
order to avoid forced heirship issues under the European...
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July 25th 2014
The Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Act 2014, which received
Royal Assent on 24 May 2014, is the result of a six year project by
the Law Commission to address the issues arising from the
statistical evidence that, in England and Wales, up to two...
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July 13th 2014
The French state makes a move towards appropriating
sleeping bank accounts and Life insurance policies.
The Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC) is an
elderly, but revamped, French public law institution which acts as
a quasi-state...
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July 8th 2014
One of the joys of the French constitutional system is that the
administration is by definition opposed to the citizen, the
remainder of the state, the European Union and, lastly the
courts within a framework of a particularly strenuous...
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