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Minimising Risk in Will Drafting - How to Avoid Claims & Complaints - Learn Live

Length
3 hours
Next course start
30 April, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom
Length
3 hours
Next course start
30 April, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom

Course description

Drafting wills is a high risk (and traditionally low cost) activity and any errors may not come to light until many years after drafting the will.


This virtual classroom seminar, presented by private client expert Julie Bell, will examine the problems and pitfalls of will drafting and is recommended for private client practitioners who draft wills.


Join Julie as she discusses the 10 steps you need to take to minimise risks, options to limit your retainer, risks in an on-line world, death bed wills, what your file should include, and much more.

Upcoming start dates

1 start date available

30 April, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

Outcome / Qualification etc.

Following all MBL courses, a certificate of attendance will be provided for those who are required to evidence their CPD activity to a professional body.

Training Course Content

Introduction

Drafting wills is a high risk (and traditionally low cost) activity and any errors may not come to light until many years after drafting the will.

How do you minimise risk? Does limiting your retainer help? What is the ‘golden rule’ and what happens if you do not adhere to it? What timescales are applicable to will drafting? How does negligence arise when wills are executed incorrectly by clients? When does the limitation period expire?

This new virtual classroom seminar will examine the problems and pitfalls of will drafting and is recommended for private client practitioners who draft wills.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

  • Problems encountered by practitioners
  • 10 steps to minimise risks
  • Options to limit your retainer
  • Risks in an on-line world
  • If I have doubts about capacity, should I proceed to avoid a claim if the client dies before capacity is established?
  • Death bed wills - are they worth doing?
  • Clients organising signing themselves
  • What should your file include?
  • Inheritance act claims
  • Storage of wills
  • Recent case law

Expenses

From £144
MBL Seminars Limited
C/o Law Business Research
Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
WC1V 7QT London

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