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    Autumn Budget - a missed opportunity

    2017-11-23T12:54:00Z

    Despite the extra funding pledged in the Spring Budget, social care was conspicuously absent from Philip Hammond’s speech on Wednesday, writes Spencer Gardner.

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    Deciphering homemade wills

    2017-10-04T12:06:00Z

    Lesley King explains how the High Court interpreted a homemade will handwritten by a testator who wasn’t grammatically fluent in English.

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    A case of mutual wills

    2017-08-25T09:27:00Z

    Lesley King discusses mutual wills and Legg v Burton v Burton [2017] EWHC 2088 (Ch). 

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    Contentious probate update – 2017 (part 4)

    2017-07-12T16:02:00Z

    With Inheritance Act claims and will disputes being the order of the day in the first few months of the year, trusts, anonymity and judicial discretion seem to be the flavour of the spring and summer months.

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    Contentious probate update - 2017 (part 3)

    2017-07-05T10:27:00Z

    With Inheritance Act claims and will disputes being the order of the day in the first few months of the year, trusts, anonymity and judicial discretion seem to be the flavour of the spring and summer months.

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    Managing a missing person's financial affairs

    2017-06-09T09:19:00Z

    The Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 Act received royal assent in April, establishing a new legal mechanism to deal with the property and financial affairs of a missing person. Lesley King looks in greater depth at the provisions within the act.

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    Contentious Probate Update - 2017 (part 2)

    2017-05-03T10:00:00Z

    Roman Kubiak takes a look at some of the biggest and most relevant cases for practitioners to hit the legal headlines since the start of 2017, with claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 appearing particularly heavily.

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    Contentious Probate Update - 2017 (part 1)

    2017-04-13T10:57:00Z

    Roman Kubiak takes a look at some of the biggest and most relevant cases for practitioners to hit the legal headlines since the start of 2017, with claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 appearing particularly heavily.

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    The probate fee saga

    2017-04-12T11:29:00Z

    The joint select committee on statutory instruments has queried whether the proposed probate fee increases are within the lord chancellor’s powers and referred the draft regulation to parliament on the basis that it represents a tax.

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    Ilott, Magna Carta, Brussels IV and the rights of spouses and heirs

    2017-02-24T15:24:00Z

    Martin Beard, partner at Dawson Cornwell, and Ray Beard, solicitor at the Head Partnership Solicitors, discuss topical issues concerning succession law and heirship. 

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    The Fourth Anti–Money Laundering Directive ((EU) 2015/849)

    2017-02-09T12:27:00Z

    Lesley King provides commentary on the impact of 4ALMD on practitioners.

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    Survivorship clauses and the commorientes rule

    2016-12-07T13:53:00Z

    Lesley King discusses survivorship clauses in wills following death and the recent judgment in Jump v Lister. 

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    Case studies

    Contentious Probate Update - December 2016 (Part 2)

    2016-12-07T10:49:00Z

    Roman Kubiak rounds up significant probate cases in recent months, including solicitor facing prison sentence for ignoring court orders. 

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    Contentious Probate Update - December 2016 (Part 1)

    2016-12-01T16:29:00Z

    Roman Kubiak rounds up significant probate cases in recent months, including the Supreme Court judgment which overrules the reliance-based approach on illegality in Tinsley v Milligan. 

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    Lay of the land

    2016-10-06T10:31:00Z

    It looks as if Brussels IV may not be as useful as hoped for UK-domiciled clients owning land in EU states, remarks Lesley King. What does this mean for UK practitioners?

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    Variation on a theme

    2016-09-07T12:01:00Z

    Lesley King rounds up the latest developments in the world of private client, including an application under the Variation of Trusts Act, and a will in favour of a long-term carer being overturned by disappointed relatives.

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    The right to buy? Maintenance and the 1975 act

    2016-08-17T14:25:00Z

    Lesley King discusses two new important pieces of OPG guidance, and an interesting – and somewhat surprising – case on maintenance under the Inheritance Act 1975

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    Contentious probate update August 2016

    2016-08-16T15:32:00Z

    Roman Kubiak takes a look at some more notable recent cases in the contentious trusts and probate field that you may have missed.

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    Contentious probate case law update July 2016

    2016-07-18T14:48:00Z

    Roman Kubiak, partner in the Contested Wills, Trusts and Estates team at Hugh James, takes a look at some of the most notable cases in the contentious trusts and probate field over the last few months.

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    RNRB and the new downsizing allowance

    2016-07-18T12:24:00Z

    Two very different matters this month: I discuss an application to dispense with service of an application to make a statutory will on a person who was entitled to a half share in P’s estate and would be disinherited by the proposed will; and new ’downsizing’ provisions in the Finance ...