Foundations for the Lpc 2009-2010

by Miles, George; Firth, Clare; Denyer, Paulene; Ollerenshaw, Zoe; Laidlaw, Pauline; Clout, Imogen; Cutts, Rachel; Smart, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780199571628
• ISBN10: 0199571627
• Edition: 13th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Foundations for the LPC offers an excellent base for students who need to understand the key principles underlying the Legal Practice Course. As well as offering coverage of topics such as EU Law, human rights, and tax, the book illustrates the importance of professional conduct by including extracts from the Solicitors' Regulation Authority's Code of Conduct. The text includes worked examples and scenarios throughout to illustrate key points and aid understanding, and checkpoints and summaries to test comprehension of the core material. This guide is essential reading for all students and a useful reference source for practitioners.

Online Resource Centre
A test bank of multiple choice questions closely tied to the material included in the book offers lecturers an excellent tool for testing their students' knowledge of the topics covered. Diagrams included in the text are available for lecturers to download from the web site for use in lectures or other teaching materials. Updates are also available online ensuring students are kept abreast of key developments in the law.

Author Biography

George Miles, Solicitor, sometime Associate Dean, Head of Professional Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of the West of England, Bristol
Clare Firth, Solicitor, Senior Lecturer in Legal Practice at the University of Sheffield
Imogen Clout, Solicitor and family mediator, formerly Lecturer in Legal Practice at the University of Sheffield
Rachel Cutts, Solicitor, former Lecturer in Legal Practice at the University of Sheffield
Zoe Ollerenshaw, Solicitor, Lecturer in Legal Practice at the University of Sheffield
Paulene Denyer, Solicitor, Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol
Elizabeth Smart, Solicitor, Senior Academic, Full-time LPC Programme Leader at BPP Law School, Leeds
Pauline Laidlaw, Solicitor, Deputy Director of Legal Practice at the University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

Professional Conduct

Professional conduct

Financial services

EU Law

EU law

Revenue Law

An introduction to revenue law

Income tax

Capital gains tax

Inheritance tax

Corporation tax

Value added tax

Introduction to the taxation of sole proprietors and partnerships

Introduction to the taxation of trusts and settlements

Probate and the administration of estates

Introduction to probate and administration of estates

Entitlement to the estate

Application for a grant of representation

Post-grant practice

Human Rights

Human Rights

Answers to self-test questions

Investments

Solicitors' Financial Services (Scope) Rules 2001

Solicitors' Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules 2001

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.