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This issue contains the following subjects:

Comment from the chair News and views Section 54/55 implementation: the real story! A cautionary tale (trusts in France) Shopping around (charity shops) I thought you had it (lost wills) The probate practitioner and financial products Permanently capacitated? (Mental Capacity Bill) Winter seminars

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Comment from the chair News and views Extending the excepted estates regulations The team leader's challenge (coaching and mentoring staff) Tax planning and the family home Rising damp (property investments) Ducking the IHT net Artistic heritage (inheritance tax) Virtual discrimination (disability discrimination and websites) Winter seminars

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Comment from the chair News and views Crime watch (probate fraud) NHS matters (health care funding) Recent developments in wills and probate The age of disclosure (money laundering) The consumer's guide to returning goods Rectification - the truth (wills) Worth its weight (remaining competitive) Away from the desk: Roger Quick

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News and views A right to know? (donor insemination) A million in 12 months? (stock market investments) The ultimate saga (Probate Review) Estates from elsewhere - the final chapter Converting the technophobes (IT) Spread the word (legacy giving) The last generation (the future for practioners) Away from the desk: Katrina Vollentine

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Comment from the chair Comment from Chancery Lane News and views Probate Section annual conference 2004 No secrets (financial abuse of the elderly) Exchanging rooms (equity release schemes) Equal access (disability discrimination) Even more estates from elsewhere The odd couple? (cohabitants and wills) Money miscellany (investments) A rose by any other name - may not smell quite as sweet (the meaning of names) Modest investment, maximum return (IT) Away from the desk: Dennis Seally-Jones

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Comment from the chair News and views Probate Section annual conference 2004 Get your oaths Budget 2004 No will? No heirs? No problem? - part two Right to reply: bona vanantia estates Taxing times (tax planning) Estates from elsewhere - III Playing it sae (storage) Being of a round mind (broadening horizons) IT pays Books: Administration of Estates

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Comment from the chair News No will? No heirs? No problem? Civil partnerships (same sex marriages and probate matters) Stamp Duty Land Tax - update Taken to the cleaners (money laundering) From the OSS: complaints relating to probate and trusts Less is more? (simplifying pensions) The man from charter mark he says yes! (Principal Registry) Crimes against the estate (estates and the elderly) Happy Easter - whenever it is Evolution solutions (IT) Away from the desk: Easter Bunny

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Comment from the chair News in brief The will to live? (living wills) Calculated risks (preparing wills) Ask the experts (unusual queries) To buy or not to buy (shares) Touching the past (history and artefacts) Estates from elsewhere - the return The public trustee part II: past, present, future Buried treasure (equity release alternatives) Simplicity itself (avoiding complications) Remembrance of things past Books (various) Think about it first... (IT) Away from the desk: Edward Solomons

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This issue contains the following subjects:

Comment from chair and Chancery Lane Tact or friction (mental capacity and will making) Negligence and wills Estates from elsewhere LLPs: what's the story One for all and all for one (professions working together) Back to basics (communication and administration) Silence is easy A brief history of the public trustee Raiders of the lost assets Always look on the bright side of death IT is inevitable Away from the desk: Fergus Muirhead

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This issue contains the following subjects:

Comment from the chair Letters Probate reveals all (department open day) Keeping it simple (guidelines on costs) Court of Appeal (Jemma Trust Co Ltd v Liptrott and others) Probate Section winter seminars 2003-2004 Civilised reform? (Civil Procedure Rules) Buying time (financial provision for older people) Any bright ideas? (inheritance problems) The miracle makers (Will Aid) Gearing up for the competition (IT) Away from the desk: Paula Nichols

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Comment from the chair and Chancery Lane News in brief Resurrecting the death department (recruitment) Law of the land (Land Registration Act, Land Registration Rules) Probate Section winter seminars 2003-2004 The complex case of colonel mooseblaster's financial assessment (assessable capital) What do I call this? (comment) Fancy a sipp? (self-invested personal pensions) Away from the desk: Father Christmas

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Comment from the chair News UK deceased estates Is this a dying business? (valuing securities) On the critical list (critical illness cover) Going to the dogs (charity) Charities for the young An annual success (conference) Trusts: the endgame (trusts) Recent developments in wills and probate Excepted estates and instruments of variation (capital taxes) Vacant situations (unoccupied residential property insurance scheme) Worldwide wills (Internet-based probate) Same time next year (conferences) Away from the desk: Nicholas Beetham

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Comment from the chair Lowering the standard? (government consultation) An offer you can't refuse (subpoenas) Undying support (football and health) There may be trouble ahead... (recruitment) The cost of caring (long-term care in a home) Home help (for the elderly) Inheritance tax Money rules (money laundering) Will power (IT) Away from the desk: Katherine Neal

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Comment from the chair and Chancery Lane Case update (CIR v Eversden and Eversden) Not just for Christmas (legacies and pets) Citations: the final problem Just what do I call this? (comment) Hone or castle? Antiques no-show? (valuations) Notes from an insurer's casebook (risk management) Good will hunting (regulating will writers) IT: in memoriam (online memorials) Away from the desk: Henry Dyson

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Comment from the chair News and letters Probate Section annual conference 2003 Citations II: appearance of the cites The PACS of life (civil partnerships in France) Willing and able (charities) Stress out! (stress management) Scoring your own goals The minds of the machine (IT architects) Websites: world wide whimsy Away from the desk: Penny Munro

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Comment from the chair Citations: the truth IHT: reading between the lines Probate Section annual conference Get staffed (staff appraisal system) World wide wonderer (IT) Battersea dogs home (charity) Leisure (in Leeds) Perchance to dream? (comment) Away from the desk: Lesley King

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This issue contains the following subjects:

Comment from the chair The pensions problem Growing pains (trusts) Death in Venice (coroner jurisdiction) Getting in foreign assets Relax, don't do it (health-related) Simpler payment scheme for inheritance tax Keep it to yourself (security) Motorway madness (IT) Caveats: a warning Correction Books: Jervis on Coroners Away from the desk: Allison Munro

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Comment from the chair Profit and loss Howdy, partners! (civil partnerships) Building an investment (trusts) Die hard (funerals) Election time (French inheritance law) Safe as houses? (business premises and security) Convenience storage (IT) All in a good cause... (charity) Equal opportunity knocks (discrimination) Books Away from the desk: Kevin Donnelly

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Comment from the chair News in brief A trusty guide (Trustee Act 2000) A problem to all (application errors) Outside information (client surveys) A death less ordinary (preparing for death) Personal insecurities (loss prevention) An unfair copy (photocopying certificates) Search and ye shall (maybe) find (IT) Costs and values Books Websites: specialist advice Away from the desk: Charles Fraser

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This issue contains the following subjects:

Comment from the chair Comment from Chancery Lane Room to review (Probate Review) Giving as good as you get (bequests) How do you measure up? (Section survey) Dealing with difficult people 3 What's in a name? (IT) PGO tips (Public Guardianship Office) Books Away from the desk: Maureen Miller

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Comment from the chair News Conflict and confidentiality The body snatchers (ownership disputes) Blunting the clause (trustee exemption clauses) Roll over Beethoven (funeral music) Dealing with difficult people (part two) User friendly (IT) Winter seminars Books Away from the desk: Alan Baker

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This issue contains the following subjects:

Comment from the chair Comment from Chancery Lane Websites: support network (for the elderly) Trust drafting checklist A charitable cause (charities) Trust mechanisms for lifetime planning From the 12th to the 21st century (Coroners Service Review) Gather ye rosebuds while we may (inheritance in films) The wonderous world of the email Dealing with difficult people (part one) Away from the desk: Denzil Lush Master

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Comment from the chair News Probate Section annual conference IHT developments Trust me, I'm a lawyer (trustee investments) Will skills Last will and entertainment (part one) Letters Bells and whistles (IT) ABC: analyse, brainstorm, construct Websites: telescopic sites Away from the desk: Carolyn Kirby

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Comment from the chair News Au revoir, les enfants (French laws of inheritance) Budget 2002 A regionalised Court of Protection Quick's theory of relativity The cat sat (readable writing) Going global (IT) Don't get taken to the cleaners (money laundering) Away from the desk: Richard Grosberg

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