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LNB News: Law Society continues to advocate for reform to law on will making
The Law Society has reported that its Wills and Equity Committee is continuing to engage in regular discussions with the Law Commission on the matter of reforming the legal framework for making a will. 
15 April 2021
Judge Rinder to host heir hunters awards
TV celebrity lawyer Judge Rob Rinder will host this year’s UK Probate Research Awards, celebrating achievements in forensic genealogy or ‘heir hunting’ among other topics
24 March 2021
The strangest of wills Premium Content
Mark Pawlowski looks at some strange & intriguing wills that have been the subject of judicial scrutiny
10 February 2021 / Mark Pawlowski
Tracking the pandemic by numbers
Divorce applications nearly doubled between April and July last year as couples struggled with the first lockdown, according to the Legal Services Board (LSB) COVID-19 research dashboard into the pandemic’s impact on legal services.
10 February 2021
Finders International: the missing inheritance
About 11% of British adults have experienced wrongly distributed inheritance, either personally or through a member of their family, research has found
08 February 2021
Avoiding an intermeddling muddle Premium Content
Revised guidelines give greater clarity on when intermeddling will be prosecuted, as Daniel Maine reports
10 December 2020 / Daniel Maine
Finders International: Heir hunters of the year
Finders International has won the ‘probate research firm of the year’―for the second time in 2020 
06 November 2020
NLJ this week: Remote wills
Wills can be witnessed using video conferencing technology, thanks to an emergency COVID-19 executive measure. It defines ‘presence’ in statute for the first time
30 October 2020
Wills—to dispense, or not to dispense: that is the question Premium Content
With the government retrospectively amending the law to allow for the video-witnessing of wills during the COVID-19 pandemic, is the next step the introduction of dispensing powers & is it a good thing, asks Debra Burton
27 October 2020 / Debra Burton
The video will execution regime: a half measure? Premium Content
An emergency measure has been introduced for the witnessing of wills, but Nicholas Bevan believes there’s been a missed opportunity
27 October 2020 / Nicholas Bevan
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Intellectual property lawyers have expressed disappointment a ground-breaking claim on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) ended with no precedent being set
Double review on whiplash and fixed costs
Two separate post-implementation reviews are being held into the extension of fixed recoverable costs for personal injury claims and the whiplash regime
CILEx Regulation prepares for post-Mazur rush
Legal executives can apply for standalone litigation practice rights, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has confirmed, in a move likely to offset some of the confusion caused by Mazur
Sir Andrew McFarlane reports on judge shortages
Delays in the family court in London and the south east are partly due to a 20% shortage of judges, Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division, has told MPs
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