The commercial value of effective delegation
If challenged, most clients would say that they would like a better service, delivered faster and more cheaply. If a lawyer can deliver on the first two then then there is probably no need to [...]
RNRB – What to do with Wills ……
In discussing what approach to take when reviewing old Wills for the purposes of achieving the RNRB and TRNRB on the surviving spouse/civil partner’s death concern was expressed about a common [...]
EU Succession Regulation 650/2012 – Brussels IV – post Brexit
The Regulation unifies the application of succession law around the law of the member state of the deceased’s last habitual residence and applies its succession laws to the deceased’s worldwide [...]
Can you make any Will you want or is testamentary freedom an illusion?
This case is the first time a case involving the IPFD 1975 has come before the Supreme Court. It received huge publicity at every stage involving as it does a challenge to a parent’s Will by an [...]
Book review of A Practitioner’s Guide to Wills
The latest edition of this comprehensive guide to Will drafting was published in January 2017. As King, Biggs and Gausden state in their preface, the book “is intended to provide a wide-ranging [...]
