# Contentious Probate 2024 : Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Answers for Your Clients

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 Thorny Questions: Directly from 5 Top-Flight KCs and 2 Senior Juniors

- Format: Hybrid
- Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- On-demand: 6 March 2024 until 18 September 2024
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: On-Demand Single £149.00 + VAT per person; On-Demand Team £259.00 + VAT per team
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/probate24

## Programme

- Chair's Introduction: Contentious Probate: Shaping new law into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Chaired by James Lister, Stevens & Bolton
- Handling financial abuse cases: How do you gain an edge for your client when handling financial abuse cases, including dodgy attorneys and predatory marriages, and recover misappropriated monies?
  - Answered by Alex Troup KC
- Costs And 1975 Act claims: In view of recent case law, how likely is the Court to treat costs and CFA debts as part of “financial needs” in 1975 Act claims?
  - Answered by Constance McDonnell KC
- Problems with capacity evidence: How do you control - and overcome - the problems with capacity evidence and turn the scale in your client's favour, following the spate of recent cases?
  - Answered by Kate Selway KC
- Challenging Trustees' decisions: What are creative ways of challenging trustees’ decisions and securing a favourable outcome for clients, supported by case law and practical examples?
  - Answered by Matthew Hodson, Gatehouse Chambers
- Personal representatives: How do you contend with - or defend - personal representatives battling with each other, including probate applications, letters of administration and strategic use of caveats?
  - Answered by Alexander Learmonth KC
- Going beyond Guest v Guest: To what extent will the courts apply the decision from Guest v Guest, but reduce the award due to proportionality and/or unreasonableness, and by how much?
  - Answered by David E Grant KC
- Early onset dementia: With early onset dementia becoming an ever increasing reality, how do you protect yourself and the testator from attack on the grounds there was cognitive impairment?
  - Answered by Oliver Ingham, 3PB

## How to book

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