Subjects:

Legal Manuals

Contents:

1: Professional Conduct

1. Professional Conduct

2. Financial Services

2: EC Law

3. EC Law

3: Revenue Law

4. An introduction to revenue law

5. Income tax

6. Capital gains tax

7. Inheritance tax

8. Corporation tax

9. Value added tax

10. Introduction to the taxation of sole proprietors and partnerships

11. Introduction to the taxation of trusts and settlements

4: Probate and the administration of estates

12. Introduction to probate and administration of estates

13. Entitlement to the estate

14. Application for a grant of representation

15. Post-grant practice

5: Human Rights

16. Human Rights

Appendix 1: Answers to self-test questions

Appendix 2: Investments

Appendix 3: Solicitors' Financial Services (Scope) Rules 2001

Appendix 4: Solicitors' Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules 2001

Foundations for the LPC offers an excellent base for students who need to understand the key principles of the core and pervasive topics on the Legal Practice Course. As well as offering complete coverage of foundation topics, it illustrates the importance of the professional conduct that underlies work in legal practice by including extracts from the Law Society's new draft 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.

New to this edition:-

• Chapter 14 on Application for a grant of representation has been thoroughly restructured to ensure that it better reflects procedure, enabling students to better understand the processes they will come across when in practice
• The test bank of multiple choice questions has been fully updated to reflect the changes made to the book, offering lecturers an up to date testing tool for assessing their students' understanding of the topics covered
• The diagrams and flowcharts featured in the book are available to lecturers online, allowing them to download images for inclusion in lecture slides or on handouts. This ensures that students' course materials are fully integrated with the book, enabling them to better understand the issues involved
• The first chapter on professional conduct has been updated to reflect the fact that the Solicitors' Code of Conduct comes into force on 1 July 2007, ensuring that students are able to obtain a good understanding of the regulations as they will stand once they have qualified