User:James Kessler QC

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Hello, you've reached James Kessler's homepage. I've a real website, http://www.kessler.co.uk , if you want to find out more about me.

I'm a tax barrister in Lincoln's Inn, so in general I only edit pages that are within my professional spectrum. I've made major edits to Foundations, to Charity and to Tax avoidance and tax evasion for example.

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en This user is a native speaker of English. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. he-3 משתמש זה מסוגל לתרום ברמה מתקדמת של עברית.
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I read Akkadian and Hebrew in Oxford, back in the '80s. There I met my beautiful wife, Jane.

I am also the author of three books - Taxation of Foreign Domiciliaries [1], Taxation of Charities [2] and Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts [3]- the last, I'm proud to say, is the father of four daughter books, DT&WT in Canada [4], DT&WT in Northern Ireland [5] Drafting Cayman Island Trusts and Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in the Channel Islands.

Oh yes, and I'm also a proud father. Feel free to leave a message.

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I like to consider myself Chairman of the London Apostrophe Society. All my family the other members unanimously voted me in.

LE-0 This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalisation.	“,;:’ This user is a punctuation stickler.	they This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.
A, B, and A and B This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.	’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.	to / too / two This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
which & that This user knows how to use which and that correctly.	its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.	UK This user uses British English.

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