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Grants of Probate & Letters of Administration - Update Your Knowledge - Learn Live

Length
1.5 hours
Next course start
3 March, 2025 (+2 start dates)
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom
Length
1.5 hours
Next course start
3 March, 2025 (+2 start dates)
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom

Course description

The probate procedure is changing rapidly, and it is essential to be aware of all these changes to avoid future problems and to ensure as swift as possible issuing of grants.


This virtual classroom seminar is aimed at private client practitioners who wish to ensure that their knowledge is up to date.


Topics discussed by expert solicitor Julie Bell will include an update on probate delays and tips to prevent applications being stopped, when paper applications are compulsory, and Brian Richard Bowser v Julie Ann Smith & Anor. Revocation clauses will also be explored, along with Kenig v Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP, price transparency compliance, unusual grant applications, and more.

Upcoming start dates

Choose between 2 start dates

3 March, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

2 September, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

Outcome / Qualification etc.

Following all MBL courses, a certificate of attendance will be provided for those who are required to evidence their CPD activity to a professional body.

Training Course Content

Introduction

The probate procedure is changing rapidly, and it is essential to be aware of all these changes to avoid future problems and to ensure as swift as possible issuing of grants.

This new virtual classroom seminar is aimed at private client practitioners who wish to ensure that their knowledge is up to date.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

  • Update on probate delays and tips to prevent applications being stopped
  • Paper applications - when are they compulsory and what is changing?
  • Brian Richard Bowser v Julie Ann Smith & Anor - overstepping the mark as a professional executor
  • Kenig v Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP - the Court of Appeal’s view on costs
  • Price transparency compliance - what has changed?
  • Revocation clauses - a reminder
  • Ingram and Whitfield v Abraham - knowledge and approval
  • Re Bala (Deceased) - worthy claimants under the Inheritance Act but not enough money to meet all needs
  • Intestacies - Kelly-Lambo
  • Unusual grant applications

Expenses

From £153
MBL Seminars Limited
C/o Law Business Research
Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
WC1V 7QT London

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