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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
24 March 2014
Residence Case - Investment banker not working full-time in Belgium liable for millions in UK tax
An investment banker working on a deal in Belgium failed to convince the Court that he was non-resident for tax purposes in the First Tier Tax Tribunal case of Paul Daniel (TC03312).
24 March 2014
Mental Capacity Case - Meat-eating testator can leave his millions to the Vegetarian Society
This case involves a millionaire who left 80% of his estate to the Vegetarian Society, despite not being a vegetarian.
25 February 2014
Lasting Powers of Attorney – the pitfalls of appointing successive replacement attorneys
Following on from our recent blog on how new technology is making Lasting Powers of Attorneys (LPAs) easier to complete and more affordable, this blog looks at the difficulties and pitfalls of appointing successive replacement attorneys in your LPA.
25 February 2014
STEP’s code is much simpler to formally adopt
After vociferously arguing to the government that will writing should be regulated by statute to protect the public from estate-planning cowboys last year, STEP has launched its own code.
23 January 2014
Supreme Court upholds the Wills in a landmark case where a married couple accidentally signed each other’s Wills
The sad case of Marley v Rawlings, where a couple accidentally signed each other’s Wills really caught the public’s imagination.
It was a simple error with catastrophic results – the Wills were invalid and so the man they had loved dearly and treated as their son received nothing, whereas their biological children, to whom they were not close, got everything.