Private Client
Legal rights, risk, duties and contention
On Demand
Virtual Semianr
Legal rights, risk, duties and contention: the current landscape for trustees and executors
On Demand
Speakers: Alan Eccles
Webinar
Trustees and executors and their advisers face increasing scope for risk and contention. Whether it be complex assets, ‘disappointment’, accurately interpreting and implementing the wishes of the deceased, family structures, valuable estates or tax rules solicitors face a growing network of issues to navigate. As well as new issues, old ‘friends’ such as legal rights and trustee powers and duties must be carefully considered. Where contention does rise, solicitors need to be aware of the court processes involved and the remedies and actions that trustees/executors, beneficiaries and others might need wish to seek.
The seminar will look at issues including:
The event begins at 2pm. Delegate registration is open from 1:30pm.
Alan's work covers three main areas: charities, private client and parliamentary matters.
Alan's private client work covers estate planning including wills, executries, trusts and inheritance tax. He is the author of the Scotland chapter in the textbook International Succession. As part of his private client advice Alan often advises on incapacity law (powers of attorney, court appointed guardianship and other methods of managing the affairs of those less able to do so). This has involved acting in some of the leading Sottish cases on incapacity law and estate and succession planning. A regular commentator on incapacity law matters, Alan's written work has been referred to in judicial decision making. Of Alan's private client work, the Legal 500 notes that he "conveys complicated legal concepts with clarity and humour".
