Recent Features and Opinion – Page 6

  • Fenella Morris QC
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    Giving pause

    2014-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Simon Edwards and Fenella Morris examine some recent cases around gifts made from the estate of a person without mental capacity, and consider the thorny question of gifts where ‘P’ has and had no comprehension of giving 

  • Daniel Sheridan
    Feature

    Securing the future

    2014-03-11T00:00:00Z

    For clients who have disabled children, one of their main priorities will be supporting their children financially after their death. Daniel Sheridan outlines the options, including wills and trusts, and their implications for tax and benefits

  • Fertility Tests
    Feature

    Fertility tests

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    Patricia Wass looks at how the Court of Protection cases approaches sterilisation and abortion

  • PS November 2013 cover
    Feature

    PS November 2013

    2013-11-19T18:25:00Z

    This edition features tax advice in Mehjoo v Harben Barker, lay OPG deputies and attorneys, proprietory estoppel and TOLATA claims in Creasey v Sole, probate software, contested probate, working with LGBT clients, PI claims and means-tested benefits, FATCA, family businesses, and international probate (including Jersey and Belgium)

  • PS September 2013 cover
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    PS September 2013

    2013-09-17T18:58:00Z

    This edition features will-drafting, LPAs and CoP cases, contentious probate, invalid wills, asset protection trusts, business development, international probate, professional negligence, trustees’ decisions, taxation, advance decisions and HWLPAs, capacity to marry, paying for long-term care, end-of-life care, pre-nups, and IHT reliefs for farming families

  • PS May 2013 cover
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    PS May 2013

    2013-05-21T19:35:00Z

    This edition features deathbed wills, Hawes v Burgess on solicitors’ evidence, capacity to consent to sexual relationships, estate administration mistakes, referrals to financial advisers, the 2013 budget, international probate, holiday lettings businesses, pro bono work, pre-nups and matrimonial property regimes for international couples

  • PS March 2013 cover
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    PS March 2013

    2013-03-19T19:47:00Z

    This edition features raising your profile in your local community, acting as executor if your firm is an LLP, declarations of trust for cohabitants, efficiency in private client practice, deathbed planning, will-drafting, cross-border mental capacity, LPAs, the legality of marriages, charitable legacies, and tax on equine businesses