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The High Court has clarified that a test for capacity from an 1870 case remains good law, in a bitter wills dispute between two siblings.

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.

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

Mark Pawlowski looks at some strange & intriguing wills that have been the subject of judicial scrutiny

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.

About 11% of British adults have experienced wrongly distributed inheritance, either personally or through a member of their family, research has found

Revised guidelines give greater clarity on when intermeddling will be prosecuted, as Daniel Maine reports

Finders International has won the ‘probate research firm of the year’―for the second time in 2020

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

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

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Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

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Law Officers mark 25 years of Pro Bono Week

The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work

NLJ this week: Debts, disputes & digital bluster

A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense

NLJ this week: Who shaped the witness’s story?

Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete

NLJ this week: New law, old convictions

Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice

NLJ this week: Beyond environmental offences

The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed

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Wills & Probate

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions