Trusts and Estates

It is often an assumption that the Court of Protection will authorise lifetime tax planning as a “good thing” for P to do, particularly where the person concerned has substantial assets which they will not need in their lifetime.However, following..

“Witness statements have ceased to be the authentic account of the lay witness; instead they have become an elaborate, costly branch of legal drafting.” These were the words of Lord Woolf in his final report on Access to Justice in July 1996. Lord..

Anyone familiar with the Jackson reforms would be forgiven for thinking the answer to the question in the title was simply “no”. On 23 May 2019, the High Court in Clarke v Allen [2019] EWHC 1193 (Ch) and 1194 (Ch) confirmed that “no” was indeed the..