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- No Contest Clauses and Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”)
- Discretionary objects and the beneficiary principle
- Wills and Post-death Tax Planning
- Probate Claims: A detailed analysis of the grounds for challenging suspicious wills
- Professional Negligence: Wills, Probate and Tax
- Court Authorisation Of Self-Dealing By Trustees In The Light Of Chaston v Chaston
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 1. Aim of Legislation
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 2. Residential Enhancement
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 3. Closely Inherited
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 4. Estates Above £2m
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 5. Brought Forward Allowance
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 6. Downsizing Relief
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 7. Residence Nil Rate Amount
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 8. Will Drafting
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 8A. Life Interest Trusts for the Surviving Spouse
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 8B. 2-Year Discretionary Trusts
- Residential Nil Rate Band: 9. Lifetime Planning
- Self-dealing by trustees in the light of Newman v Clarke
- Newman v Clark (new decision on trustees and self-dealing in which Charles Holbech successfully obtained summary judgment)
- Private Client Tax Update
- White v Jones liability for negligent advice
- Bromley v Breslin [2015] exposes the possible cost consequences of an application under CPR 57.7(5) to challenge the validity of a will.
- Proprietary Estoppel: Expectation or Detriment
- Landed Estates: APR/BPR
- WILLS AND PROBATE CASE LAW UPDATE, Oct. 2015
- INHERITANCE TAX – PLANNING TIPS, Oct 2015
- Duties and liabilities of trustees: Lessons from recent cases
- To Litigate or not to Litigate in Claims Involving Wills: Practical Points for Charities
- Professional Negligence and the Wills and Probate Practitioner
- Probate Claims: Suspicious Circumstances
- Tips to avoid succession claims
- Duties of trustees with regard to investments
- Trustees duties to provide documents
- Negligence in context of Wills
- Defences To Claims For Breach Of Trust
- Rectification of Settlements
- Pitt v Holt and the rule in Hastings-Bass
- Contentious Probate
- Family Provision – Adult children, spouses
- Trusts and Probate claim concerning solicitors
- Claims against trustees following Pitt v Holt
- Mistake and Rectification
- Negligence and Inheritance Tax Planning
- Removal of trustees
- Probate claims – grounds of invalidity