Day 13 in the trial of Alex Murdaugh is set to start at 9:30 am on Wednesday, Feb. 8.

The double homicide trial of Murdaugh started Monday, Jan. 23, with the selection of the jury that would decide his fate in the deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in June 2021. The start of a saga that has made headlines across the nation and has become a true crime phenomenon .

Tuesday saw the state continue to build its house of circumstantial evidence and gunshot residue is the cement holding together Tuesday’s testimony. Going into Wednesday, the Murdaugh

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Tuesday 7th February 2023 the Court will hear Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Vermilion Holdings Ltd (Scotland), on appeal from [2021] CSHI 45. The Court will consider if it is the right or opportunity for Mr Noble to acquire the 2007 Option (a) available by reason of his directorship of VHL (section 471(1) ITEPA); or (b) made available by Mr Noble’s employer (section 471(3) ITEPA), thereby subjecting it to income tax under Chapter 5, Part 7 of ITEPA. The hearing will begin

Author: Dr Marion Oswald

Last week, Rt Hon. Lord Geidt resigned as the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, citing – as the straw that broke the camel’s back – a still rather opaque issues relating to international lawputting him ‘in an impossible and odious position’. This non-statutory role advises the Prime Minister on the Ministerial Code, which requires Ministers to uphold the highest standards of property, comply with the law, protect the integrity of public life and observe the Seven Principles of Public Life. The role now stands vacant, with uncertainty as to whether Lord Geidt will be

In this post, Neal Chandru, an Associate in the Tax team at CMS, comments on the case of DCM (Optical Holdings) Ltd (“DCM”) v Commissioners for his Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (“HMRC”) [2022] UKSC 26 – handed down on 12 October 2022.

The issues on appeal before the Supreme Court were whether HMRC:

1. were, on the facts of the case, constrained by the statutory time bar in s 73(6) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (“VATA”); and
2. can deny a self-assessment claim for payment of a VAT credit while HMRC validates the claim.

The background facts which

The suspected gunman who allegedly shot 20 people, 10 fatally, at a dance studio near a Lunar New Year celebration in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park has been identified and linked to a second incident the same night, authorities said Sunday.

Huu Can Tran, 72, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a white cargo van in Torrance that law enforcement officers had surrounded and forced their way into about 30 miles from where the massacre occurred, authorities said.

Authorities said they found a handgun and other evidence inside the van. An investigation is ongoing, and

In this post, Mathew Purchase KC of Matrix Chambers previews the forthcoming judgment in the case of R (Day) v Shropshire Council, on appeal from [2020] EWCA Civ 1751.

background

Shrewsbury Town Council owned a plot of land which was subject to a statutory trust arising either under section 10 of the Open Spaces Act 1906 or, impliedly, under the Public Health Act 1875. Pursuant to that trust, the town council had to allow the public to enjoy the land as an open space.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 (‘the 1972 Act’), the town council was permitted to dispose

(Bloomberg) — Investors and lawyers in Israel are weighing their next steps as they fret over a new law that weakens the power of judges and has deepened uncertainty for the country’s $520 billion economy.

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On Monday, despite widespread anger and hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in protest, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition barred judges from voiding ministerial decisions they consider “unreasonable.”

The shekel fell after the bill was easily passed in the Knesset, with opposition lawmakers boycotting the vote. The currency has weakened 1.7% to 3.70 per dollar this week,

Changes may be coming to the “de minimis” exception under Section 321 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, which allows goods valued less than $800 to enter the United States free of duty and taxes, and generally free from formal review, when shipped to individual consumers.

Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representatives Neal Dunn (R-FL) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Import Security and Fairness Act (“the Act”) on June 15, 2023, the most recent of several legislative efforts proposing changes to the “de minimis” threshold. The Act would make goods sourced from perceived