Drafting for Succession

A Mental Health Legal Representation Project Seminar

CPD  3 hours

DATE Friday 22nd August 2008

TIME 10.00am to 1.00pm (Registration and Coffee 9.30am)

VENUE The Board Room, Legal Services Agency Ltd., 3rd Floor, Fleming House, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow

COST £90.00 full price/£80.00 LSA members/£60.00 Concessionary cost places

OBJECTIVES A highly practical and up-to-date guide to drafting documents in the law of succession.  By anticipating and analysing drafting issues this seminar leads the way in the continually developing, and increasingly complex, specialised field of drafting for succession.

The seminar incorporates the rules for Power of Attorney (complying with the provisions of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000) and Advance Medical Directives/Living Wills.  Topics to be covered:

    • Why make a will?
    • Drafting a valid will
    • The draftman's responsibilities
    • The common provisions of a will
    • Legacies
    • The beneficiaries
    • Codicils, powers of attorney and living wills
    • Islamic wills
    • Styles

PARTICIPANTS This seminar is aimed at all those concerned in the drafting of wills, powers of attorney and living wills.  For the general practitioner who needs a broad range of knowledge; the specialist who needs to be up-to-date in order to operate their risk management systems effectively; or for the paralegal as a handy resource tool to see what issues need to be flagged up to the qualified practitioner, whatever your involvement there is something for everyone.  With the inclusion of powers of attorney and living wills this seminar will also be of interest to those involved in the field of mental health.

SPEAKER The speaker is John Kerrigan, Partner, Maxwell MacLaurin.  Mr. Kerrigan has been a Partner at Maxwell MacLaurin for twenty-three years.  He is also a Tutor at the Glasgow Graduate School of Law based at Strathclyde University in the subjects of Wills, Trusts & Succession.  He is a Member of the Securities and Investment Institute and has recently published a book "Drafting for Succession".

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