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Private ClientLine is a free legal update service for busy private client law practitioners.
Each month a selection of our contributors will comment on the latest legal developments
from the following practice areas within private client law:
Tax Planning – Uses of Trusts, reliefs, will drafting on tax issues, gifts etc
Practice – Wills – Instructions, drafting, construction, types of will, practical
tips in drafting
Practice – Estates – all areas in the administration of estates from litigation
to tax returns, grants of probate to deeds of variation, best practice, worst practice
Practice – Trusts – As for estates, from tax returns to powers of appointment, investment
to administration, also to include drafting
Practice – Elder – LPA/EPA issues, Court of Protection etc, care issues, capacity
(other than wills)
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About The Contributors
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Professor Lesley King, College of Law
Professor Lesley King is Private Client Practice Head at The College of Law, Bloomsbury.
She is co-author of Wills, Taxation and Administration: A Practical Guide and editor
of The Probate Practitioner’s Handbook. She is the wills and probate columnist for
the Law Society Gazette, and writes and lectures extensively on wills, taxation
and related matters.
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Ruth Hughes, Barrister, 5 Stone Buildings
Ruth has taught company law on the Bar Vocational Course and has contributed to
the Trust Quarterly Review and other professional journals. She also writes headnotes
for the Wills and Trusts Law Reports. She is the assistant editor of the Elder Law
Journal. Ruth lectures on all areas of her practice and in particular proprietary
estoppel.
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David Coldrick, Consultant, Wrigleys Solicitors
David deals with all areas of private client work, including tax, trusts and estates.
He has a particular interest and is a well-known authority on tax planning for the
younger and elderly client and protection of assets of personal injury trusts, which
involves a thorough knowledge of the benefit aspects and understanding of working
with the disabled and their families. More...
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Martyn Frost, Director, Trenfield Trust & Estates Consulting Ltd, Manchester
Prior to joining Trenfield Trust & Estates Consulting Ltd, Martyn spent a number
of years with Barclays Bank Trust Company taking on a variety of roles, including
heading the company's internal legal department.
Martyn has had over 40 years’ experience of the administration of estates and trusts
and has taught both subjects for Barclays Bank Trust Company, the Chartered Institute
of Bankers (in London, Jersey and Nassau) and also for Moorgate Polytechnic. He
has also worked as an examiner for the Chartered Institute of Bankers’ estates and
trusts examinations. He has written, contributed to and edited several books on
estates and trusts issues, the latest being Risk and Negligence in Wills, Estates
and Trusts. He also provides the chapter on Regulation and Money Laundering for
Tolley's Administration of Trusts. He has been an editor of the Wills and Trusts
Law Reports since their inception in 2000 and was one of the original editors of
the Trust Quarterly Review.
Martyn is a tutor for the STEP Foundation Certificate for England and Wales and
has contributed to the revision of the course manual for this paper. He has also
updated areas of the STEP Trust Creation: Law and Practice course manual.
He is a former Vice President of The Association of Corporate Trustees and a former
Deputy Chairman of STEP.
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