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

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

- Format: Hybrid
- Date: Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- On-demand: 11 March 2026 until 31 December 2026
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: On-Demand Single £199.00 + VAT per person; On-Demand Team £274.00 + VAT per team
- Status: Open for booking
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/probate26

## Programme

- Chair's Introduction: Contentious Probate: Shaping new law into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Chaired by James Lister, Stevens & Bolton
- Executor removal: Where are the courts drawing the line on executor removal and loss of indemnity following the recent run of 2025 cases?
  - Answered by Alex Troup KC, St John’s Chambers
- Lifetime care claims: How do you present or attack post-death claims for lifetime care and the intention to create legal relations in light of Rogers v Wills [2025]?
  - Answered by Matthew Hodson, Gatehouse Chambers
- Financial provision: What is the latest judicial thinking on reasonable financial provision for adult children and the meaning of "something more" in moral claims?
  - Answered by Constance McDonnell KC, Serle Court Chambers
- Fluctuating capacity: How - practically and legally - do you manage fluctuating capacity, e.g. distorted memories, false beliefs, extreme grief and personality change?
  - Answered by Mark Baxter, 5 Stone Buildings
- Unconscionability: What amounts to unconscionability in proprietary estoppel — and when should you use unjust enrichment or undue influence as back-up arguments?
  - Answered by Kate Selway KC, Radcliffe Chambers
- Suspicious changes: What counts and will sway the court over a suspect will, where there is a suspicious change in disposition after Khatun v Hasan [2025]?
  - Answered by Elis Gomer, 5 Stone Buildings
- Financial abuse: What is realistic and achievable when investigating and proving financial abuse under a POA after a donor has died and restoring the estate?
  - Answered by Richard Dew, Ten Old Square

## How to book

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