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European Union – Value added tax. The Court of Justice of the European Union gave a preliminary ruling, deciding that the making available of a stadium to a football club constituted a supply of services rather than a letting of immovable property within the meaning of art 13B(b) of the Sixth Directive where, amongst other things, the owner permanently controlled the access to the sporting facilities and 80% of the charge payable represented services of management, maintenance and cleaning.
European Union – Value added tax. The Court of Justice of the European Union gave a preliminary ruling, deciding that the making available of a stadium to a football club constituted a supply of services rather than a letting of immovable property within the meaning of art 13B(b) of the Sixth Directive where, amongst other things, the owner permanently controlled the access to the sporting facilities and 80% of the charge payable represented services of management, maintenance and cleaning.
The Chair of the Bar reports back
Susie Griffin on the admin that keeps barristers from billable work
Clement Cowley, Partner at The Penny Group, explains how global events can influence the performance of pensions and ISAs, and why taking a long-term approach to investing is often the most effective strategy
Mário Barroso, Head of R&D and Method Development at AlphaBiolabs, discusses what family law professionals need to know about hallucinogens, from the main hallucinogenic drugs encountered in family proceedings, to their effects and the testing options available
Harmony Christian Ministries is the latest charity to benefit from a £500 donation from AlphaBiolabs via the company’s Giving Back initiative
By David Green
The golden age of advocacy? David Langwallner pays homage to the filmic if contentious barrister Sir Edward Carson and some of his contemporaries
Leah Arthur, a pupil, and her second seat supervisor, John Goss, share their perspectives on building a productive pupil-supervisor relationship
Henry Fingerhut outlines what the Bar Standards Board AI guidance means for early career barristers
The Ministry of Justice will match-fund up to 100 criminal pupillages, with grants available to criminal chambers across England and Wales. Similar to the COIC scheme, the grants will match-fund pupillages additional to those otherwise offered without government funding
Not yet, says Jacob Turner. Regulation, unlike the technology itself, is a domain the legal profession can still control
