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Dear Lexis®Library subscriber,

e-burst brings you up to date with the latest improvements in your LexisNexis® online services. Some of the sources and titles mentioned below are subscription dependent, please contact your account manager or call us on 020 7400 2984 if you would like to discuss adding any of these services to your existing subscription.

PDFs of the ICLR Law Reports

Available on menus including LexisNexis Library, UK Cases, The Law Reports (ICLR) and the Academic menus ACAL01, ACLM38 & ACLM40. You may know we have The Law Reports from 1865 to the present day on LexisLibrary. These are the official reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting of England and Wales (ICLR). What you may not be aware of is that they are also held on LexisLibrary in PDF format so can be printed as direct page for page replicas of the hardcopy set! You can access The Law Reports PDFs by clicking on the PDF icon in the toolbar of the Law Report you’re looking at – see diagram.

You’ll also be pleased to know that the popular CopyURL functionality which enables you to bookmark documents and searches from LNB is also available on the Law Reports! When you click on the CopyURL delivery option on a Law Report, you will have the option to select the Word or PDF version. This means that you can easily create a link to a PDF version of a Law Report.  Quick, easy and useful – this is going to save you time and effort!

New online content

Tolley’s Inheritance Tax Planning 2009
Available on menus including Tax Library, Legal Library, Lexis Nexis Library and Tax Planning

Shortlisted for the STEP Private Client Book of the Year (STEP Private Client Awards 2007), this groundbreaking source provides expert IHT planning advice and ways in which firms can sell IHT planning to clients.

Its transaction based approach presents tax planning strategies for the many different types of client you advise in practice - whether they are individuals, married or unmarried couples, clients in second marriages etc, with recommendations tailored to their particular wealth bracket.

This practical guide contains worked examples and case studies throughout to help the practitioner know what life-time planning, drafting tax-effective wills, post-death planning, trusts, pre-owned assets and chattels strategies mean for their client.

Tiley & Collison's UK Tax Guide 2009-10
Available on menus including Tax Library, Legal Library and LexisNexis Library

Tiley & Collison's UK Tax Guide adopts a practical approach to UK tax law providing essential guidance for the practitioner and is equally suitable for students studying for the CIOT examination. It examines the workings of income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, VAT, stamp duty and NIC. The thought-provoking commentary makes the complex subject of revenue law interesting and easy to understand.

The 2009-10 edition is fully up-to-date incorporating statute and case law up to the date of Royal Assent of the Finance Act 2009 and with expert commentaries from Patrick Cannon (Stamp Duties) and Charles Barcroft (VAT).

Removed online content

The Costs Law Reports has been removed from LexisLibrary due to a change of publisher and licensing arrangements.

Halsbury Awards

The Halsbury’s Awards recognise outstanding service in law libraries and legal information services in Great Britain and Ireland.

Organised by the British and Irish Association of Law Libraries (BIALL) and LexisNexis, these are the only awards to recognise the value of dedicated teamwork within legal information services. There are awards for both the commercial and non-commercial sectors across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The awards are chosen by a panel made up of senior BIALL officers, LexisNexis representatives and the chair of BIALL’s Awards & Bursaries Committee and will be presented at the BIALL Annual Conference on 10th June 2010. 

Give your team or chosen legal information service the recognition they deserve. Nominate them at http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/halsburys-awards. Entries close on 15th May 2010.

Top Tip!

Much of the Companies Act 1985 has been repealed by the 2006 Act; however practitioners sometimes need to refer to the 1985 Act for historical or forensic purposes. For your reference, the 1985 Act is still available in the Butterworth’s Company Law Handbook source. If you browse the Table of Contents, then select Part I Pre-2006 Companies Legislation, you will see the top entry is the Companies Act 1985.

Top Tip!

As a reference tool, the Budget Service source provides an invaluable resource of information on the changes brought in by the Budget 2010 - keeping you up-to-date with ease. This source consists of the following resources:

The Budget Speech in full
Treasury Press Releases
Inland Revenue Budget Notes
Customs & Excise Budget Notes
Budget Resolutions
Budget Summary (from the Tolley Tax Editorial Team).

Did you know?

The head of any dead whale found on the British coast is legally the property of the King; the tail, on the other hand, belongs to the Queen - in case she needs the bones for her corset!

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