User:James Kessler QC

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, and 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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de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

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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 six daughter books, Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Australia [4], Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Canada [5], Drafting Cayman Island Trusts [6], Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in the Channel Islands [7], Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Northern Ireland [8] and Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Singapore [9].

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

Pedantry

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

LE-0This 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.
A, B, and A and BThis user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.	’sThi'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 twoThis user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
which & thatThis user knows how to use which and that correctly.	its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.	UKThis user uses British English.

Picture of the day

Apollo 15 (July 26 – August 7, 1971) was the fourth crewed mission to land on the Moon. It was the first of three J missions, with a longer stay on the Moon, a greater focus on science, and the use of the first Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). David Scott and James Irwin landed near Hadley Rille and spent 18 and a half hours on extravehicular activity (EVA), collecting 170 pounds (77 kg) of surface material. During the return trip, Alfred Worden performed the first spacewalk in deep space. The mission included the collection of the Genesis Rock, thought to be part of the Moon's early crust, and Scott used a hammer and a feather to demonstrate Galileo's theory that, absent air resistance, objects fall at the same rate regardless of mass. The mission was later marred when it was found that the crew had carried unauthorized postal covers to the lunar surface, some of which were sold by a West German stamp dealer. The crew was reprimanded for poor judgment, and none flew in space again. This photograph, taken by Scott during an EVA on August 2, shows Irwin giving a military salute beside the U.S. flag. The Lunar Module Falcon is in the center, with the LRV on the right.Photograph credit: David Scott; restored by Bammesk and Basile Morin