CPD 1.5 hours

PEAT Outcome - Relevant legal knowledge

OBJECTIVES

In this increasingly litigious society in which we live it would appear that more and more claims are being raised by beneficiaries against Trustees and Executors.

This Zoom Webinar will consider what protections our law currently affords to Trustees and Executors. It will also consider how Trustees and Executors can take steps to protect themselves from claims by beneficiaries, fairly made or otherwise.

PARTICIPANTS

This webinar is aimed at private client practitioners.

SPEAKER

The speaker is John Kerrigan, Blackadders. John is a Consultant within the Blackadders Private Client Team and has over 40 years of legal practical experience, 34 of them as a Partner. 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 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 is also current Editor of the Scottish Trusts and Succession Service provided by Greens. John is the author of “Drafting for Succession” now in its second edition. He is currently working on other legal literary works.