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.

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

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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-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 B
This 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.
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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 & 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.


Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating-current electricity supply system. This photograph, taken in Tesla's laboratory in Colorado Springs in December 1899, supposedly shows him reading in a chair next to his giant "magnifying transmitter" high-voltage generator while the machine produces huge bolts of electricity. The image was created through a double exposure as part of a promotional stunt by the photographer Dickenson V. Alley. The machine's huge sparks were first photographed in the darkened room, then the photographic plate was exposed again with the machine off and Tesla sitting in the chair. Tesla admitted that the photograph was false in his book Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900.Photograph credit: Dickenson V. Alley; restored by Bammesk