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Clare Kelly provides a round-up of recent contentious probate case law

Kathryn Purkis provides a comparative view of family provision in the British Isles

Paola Fudakowska & Henrietta Mason analyse solicitors’ duties in estate matters

Rawdon Crozier reflects on mixed messages & disclaimer by conduct

Paola Fudakowska & Henrietta Mason examine recent wills & probate decisions

Dominic Regan discusses strange & unusual deaths

Henrietta Mason & Paola Fudakowska provide a wills & probate update

Personal representatives will struggle to fund the proposed increase in probate court fees, says Joyce Bradbeer

Lawyers have spoken out against Ministry of Justice (MoJ) proposals to charge grieving families up to £20,000 in probate fees.

A small earthquake…or just business as usual? Steve Evans reports on the impact of Ilott v Mitson

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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