Drafting for Succession

A Mental Health Legal Representation Project Seminar

CPD  3 hours

DATE Friday 25th May 2012

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 Trainee Solicitor & Concessionary cost places

PEAT outcome: relevant legal knowledge

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, Morisons (formerly Maxwell MacLaurin).  Mr. Kerrigan has been a Partner at Morisons for twenty-six years.  He was a Tutor at the Glasgow Graduate School of Law for 12 enjoyable years tutoring diploma students in the subjects of Wills, Trusts & Succession.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment.  He has also been a member of the Trust and Succession Sub-Committee of the Law Society of Scotland since 2005.  John has contributed to various articles to, inter alia, the Scots Law Times, The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, The Scotsman and various other newspapers and periodical magazines.  He has recently published the second edition of his book "Drafting for Succession".

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