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In this issue: Probate Trusts Court of Protection Elderly and vulnerable clients UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Regulatory compliance for Private Client Family businesses and ownership structures Charity and philanthropy Contentious trusts and estates Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Question of the week Daily and weekly news alerts LexTalk® Private Client: a Lexis+® community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Useful information Probate Application granted to seal Will of former IRA agent (Johnson v His Majesty’s Attorney-General) The Chancery Division, on a summons, ordered the Will of Frank Cowley (formerly Freddie Scappaticci) to be sealed pursuant to the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987, SI 1987/2024, r 58, and section 124 of the Senior Courts Act 1981. The court held that making the Will public would be ‘undesirable’ and ‘inappropriate’, due to...

In this issue: Trusts Court of Protection UK taxation for private clients HMRC manual updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Family enterprises and ownership frameworks Charity and philanthropy Disputed trusts and estates Pensions, insurance and tax-efficient investments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland International Question of the week Further Private Client updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts LexTalk®Private Client: a Lexis+® community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Useful information Trusts Help! We can’t find the Trust Deed (In re Fassam deceased) When the original trust deed could not be located, yet other deeds made by the deceased for similar settlements were to hand, the court inferred the missing terms probably matched them—namely, an equal division between the two children. On that footing, the court permitted the trustees to release the trust fund to the deceased’s only...

In this issue: Wills Probate Trusts Powers of attorney and advance decisions Court of Protection Spouses, civil partners and cohabitants UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Charity and philanthropy Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland International Question of the week Additional Private Client updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts LexTalk®Private Client: a Lexis+® community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Useful information Wills Law Commission publishes recommendations to reform Wills Act 1837 The Law Commission of England and Wales has issued its final report, ‘Modernising Wills Law’. Volume I presents the recommendations, while Volume II sets out a draft Bill to repeal and replace the Wills Act 1837. The 31 proposals are intended to reinforce testamentary freedom, strengthen safeguards for those vulnerable...

Private Client England & Wales glossary A Abatement When, after settling the deceased’s funeral costs, debts and liabilities, the remaining estate cannot satisfy all legacies in full, the gifts are reduced accordingly, unless the Will shows a different intention. In a solvent estate, the order for reduction appears in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Administration of Estates Act 1925. Refer to Practice Note: Payment of legacies. Accruals basis Where income is taxed on an accruals basis, it is attributed to a given tax year by reference to the number of days within that year during which the activity giving rise to the liability accrued. See Practice Note: What is the basis of income tax?. Accumulation and maintenance (A&M) trust A form of non‑interest in possession trust designed to benefit children and young people up to 25, which received favourable inheritance tax treatment between 1975 and 2006. See Practice Note: Accumulation and maintenance trusts—IHT [Archived]. Accredited Legal Representative (ALR) ...

ARCHIVED: Following the changes proposed under The Windsor Framework, the details of which the UK government publicly set out on 27 February 2023, this Practice Note has been formally archived and is no longer updated. The material within this Practice Note remains correct as at 1 January 2021. For additional detail on The Windsor Framework and what it means for VAT in Northern Ireland, see: The Windsor Framework. This Practice Note addresses VAT in relation to the movement of goods between Northern Ireland (NI) and the EU from 1 January 2021 (and how it applied to all VAT-registered businesses in the UK on or before 31 December 2020). Distance selling arises where a VAT-registered EU supplier sells and ships goods to a customer in another EU country who is not registered for VAT. The customer might be a private person, or an organisation that does not have to register for VAT such as a charity or public authority, or a business that is below the registration threshold or makes...

FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Charities Act 2022 (CA 2022) obtained Royal Assent on 24 February 2022 and will be introduced largely in stages from October 2022 through to early 2024. CA 2022 gives effect to the bulk of the recommendations in the Law Commission’s 2017 report, ‘Technical Issues in Charity Law’. For a synopsis of the accepted recommendations, see News Analysis: Government response to Law Commission report ‘Technical Issues in Charity Law’. For additional guidance on the roll-out of CA 2022, see News Analyses: Charities Act 2022—what do we know so far?, Charity land disposals—new law is coming into force, and government guidance: Charities Act 2022: implementation plan. Of particular importance to this Practice Note are the amendments relating to the following: disposals of land by liquidators, provisional liquidators, administrators, receivers and mortgagees, which are to be excluded from Part 7 of the Charities Act 2011; and the recasting of the exception in section 117(3)(c) of the Charities Act 2011 so that it applies solely to...

FORTHCOMING CHANGE: Potential changes to Wills Act 1837 On 16 May 2025, the Law Commission’s review of Wills published its final report, formally setting out its conclusions, with Volume II containing a draft Bill intended to supersede the Wills Act 1837. For details of these proposals, including the published draft legislation, consult Practice Note: Hot topic—modernising Wills and Modernising wills: Final Report Volume II: draft Bill for a new Wills Act. STOP PRESS: Ending the non-dom regime and moving to a residence-based IHT regime. The Finance Act 2025 (FA 2025), which obtained Royal Assent on 20 March 2025, enacts legislation for the removal of the remittance basis of taxation and substitutes a residence-based system commencing on 6 April 2025. It also displaces domicile as the principal determinant of inheritance tax (IHT) liability for individuals. Further measures cover revisions to the rules for excluded property status, the removal of protected settlements status for offshore trusts, and alterations to overseas workday relief as applicable. For more on these reforms, see...

STOP PRESS: Abolition of non-dom regime and introduction of residence-based IHT regime. The Finance Act 2025 (FA 2025), which secured Royal Assent on 20 March 2025, enacts measures that scrap the remittance basis of taxation and bring in a residence-based framework from 6 April 2025. FA 2025 also replaces domicile as the principal determinant of inheritance tax liability. Further reforms include revisions to the rules that govern excluded property status, the removal of protected settlement treatment for offshore trusts, and adjustments to overseas workday relief. For detailed guidance, see Practice Notes: The abolition of the remittance basis of taxation from 2025–26 and A new residence-based regime for IHT from 2025–26. Also see: Finance Bill Tracking Service: Key dates (Finance Bill 2025) and Finance Act 2025. I, [ insert full name ], of [ insert full address ], to arrange the devolution of my estate upon my death, set out the following: Revocation — I annul all earlier testamentary documents and direct their destruction...