LawSkills Articles

Here, Gill reviews Digital Executor: Unraveling the New Path for Estate Planning by Sharon Hartung TEP.

There is a huge issue around how digital assets are handled after death and this type of asset is going to become increasingly more significant.

Purpose This hardy perennial provides practitioners with practical examples of how tax law works. Its purpose is to keep tax practitioners up to date with changing legislation in relation to inheritance tax (IHT) and trusts. It does this by [...]

The language in which a French Will is written is not a condition of validity of the Will and yet, the language in which a French Will is written is also fundamental.

These regulations update which estates are excepted from the need to provide a full IHT account (the IHT 400) on a person’s death.

Much has appeared in the tax press about the lack of multiple dwelling relief for Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and ancillary dwellings. It is quite ironic therefore that a recent main residence relief case for Capital Gains Tax (CGT) has allowed [...]

Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum suggests we have already entered the Fourth Industrial Revolution. How do we lawyers thrive in such an era?

Gill Steel, from LawSkills, reviews the book Mapping Legal Innovation – Trends & Perspectives – by Antoine Masson and Gavin Robinson.

In UK probate cases where the deceased also had assets in Spain, there are particular aspects that need to be carefully considered.

The ‘magic bullet’ of the cap on care costs is unlikely to have a significant impact on individuals who need care.