Annual Probate, Private Client and Court of Protection Conference

Wednesday 25 May 2022

Speakers and topics included:

Edward Cumming QC and Timothy Sherwin – Caught in the whirlwind: the Court of Protection and questions of capacity in the context of complex structures
Helen Galley – Interpretation of Wills: Knotty problems of construction by reference to recent cases
Bajul Shah – Recognising Foreign Oral Wills
Sarah Bayliss – Claimant’s conduct in 1975 Act Claims: Irrelevant, boring and wasteful of costs?
Adam Cloherty and Harry Samuels – Modern Family: new approaches to trust interpretation
Owen Curry – Secret trusts
Heather Murphy – The curious case of the missing defendant: Womble Bond Dickinson (Trust Corporation) v No named defendant [2022] EWHC 43 (Ch)