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Chancery and Commercial Group Autumn Seminar

The Chancery & Commercial Group are holding their autumn seminar on Tuesday November 28th. The event is being held via zoom and is FREE to attend. More details coming soon.

Overview

Date: Tuesday 28th November 2023

Time: 4:00PM to 6:00PM

Venue: Online

Cost: Free

Areas of Law: Chancery and Commercial

The Chancery & Commercial Group are holding their autumn seminar on Tuesday November 28th. The event is being held via zoom and is FREE to attend.

Specialist practitioners will discuss specific Chancery Law matters including:

  • Home Loan/Double Trust IHT avoidance schemes of the Noughties – Home Loan/Double Trust IHT avoidance schemes were sold in the Noughties. Now, twenty years later, they are being tested before the Tax Tribunals. Were they effective? Do clients even know they have entered into them? Should they be unravelled? What are the tax consequences.
  • Testamentary Capacity: The beginning of the end for Banks v Goodfellow? Will Baker & Spiers v Hewston [2023] EWHC 1145 (Ch) mark the start of a process to replace the test for testamentary capacity in Banks v Goodfellow with the statutory test for capacity laid down in the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
  • Recent developments in Business and Property litigation, substance and procedure.
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Event Presentation Team

  • Gary joined chambers in 2021 after completing a Chancery and Commercial pupillage under the supervision of David Green.

    • Chancery and Commercial
    • Court of Protection
    • Insolvency
    • Landlord & Tenant
    • Tax & Pensions
    • + 2 others
    Gary Donaldson
    Call: 2015
  • Following Call Nigel qualified as an HM Inspector of Taxes following which he used the knowledge he had acquired in an international accountancy firm.

    • Chancery and Commercial
    • Employment
    • Tax & Pensions
    • Wills, Probate & Trusts
    Nigel Ginniff
    Call: 1978
  • Jac joined chambers after completing a Chancery and Commercial (Business and Property) pupillage.

    • Chancery and Commercial
    • Court of Protection
    • Insolvency
    • Landlord & Tenant
    • Wills, Probate & Trusts
    • + 1 other
    Jac Armstrong
    Call: 2013