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If you are looking for an easy and inexpensive way to keep up to date with pressing topics in Wills, Probate, Trusts, Tax and Elderly & Vulnerable client law, with quality insights from Gill Steel and her team, why not subscribe to our LawSkills Monthly Digest?
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January 2022 Digest Overview
Wills
- Rules for video-witnessing of Wills extended
- Effect of no charging clause in Will – Brearley v Shepherd & Co [2022] EWHC B26
Probate
- Probate fees increase from 26 January 2022
- Deceased’s nominated person can access Apple iCloud
- Secret trust claim fails – Mattingley v Bugeja [2021] EWHC 3353
- Challenge to a term in a Will which revoked the terms of a trust deed – Equiom v Velarde [2022] EWHC 11
- Review of minor claimant’s IPFD award – Tucker v Purle [2021] EWHC 3485
Trusts
- Updates to Trust Registration Service – 16 December 2021 and application for Statutory Instrument
Tax
- IHT interest rate rise
- Reminders of changes to Excepted Estates – From 1 January 2022
Elderly & Vulnerable
- The DHSC social care White Paper “People at the Heart of Care” – published on 1 December 2021
- Consultation on potential changes to MCA 2005 small payments scheme – closes 12 January 2022
- Delay in implementation of Liberty Protection Safeguards – system to replace Deprivation of Liberty safeguarding system in England & Wales
- Judicial visits in Court of Protection – Re AH (Serious Medical Treatment) [2021] EWCA 1768
