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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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.

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KiMo Theater is a theater and historic landmark located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Fifth Street. It was built in 1927 in the extravagant Pueblo Deco architecture, which is a blend of adobe-style Pueblo Revival building styles (rounded corners and edges), decorative motifs from indigenous cultures, and the soaring lines and linear repetition found in American Art Deco architecture. The name Kimo, meaning 'mountain lion', was suggested by Pablo Abeita in a competition sponsored by the Albuquerque Journal. The theater opened on September 19, 1927, with a program including Native American dancers and singers, a performance on the newly installed $18,000 Wurlitzer theater organ, and the comedy film Painting the Town. According to local legend, the KiMo Theatre is haunted by the ghost of Bobby Darnall, a six-year-old boy killed in 1951 when a water heater in the theater's lobby exploded. The tale alleges that a theatrical performance of A Christmas Carol in 1974 was disrupted by the ghost, who was supposedly angry that the staff was ordered to remove donuts they had hung on backstage pipes to appease him. This photograph shows the facade of the KiMo Theater, seen from across Central Avenue.Photograph credit: Daniel Schwen