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HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published guidance for members of the public and probate professionals to apply for probate online and includes an update on how HMCTS is planning to enhance the service through 2021. 
Mark Pawlowski considers whether English law recognises property rights in a dead body or bodily parts
The High Court has clarified that a test for capacity from an 1870 case remains good law, in a bitter wills dispute between two siblings.
The Law Society has reported that its Wills and Equity Committee is continuing to engage in regular discussions with the Law Commission on the matter of reforming the legal framework for making a will. 
TV celebrity lawyer Judge Rob Rinder will host this year’s UK Probate Research Awards, celebrating achievements in forensic genealogy or ‘heir hunting’ among other topics
Mark Pawlowski looks at some strange & intriguing wills that have been the subject of judicial scrutiny
Divorce applications nearly doubled between April and July last year as couples struggled with the first lockdown, according to the Legal Services Board (LSB) COVID-19 research dashboard into the pandemic’s impact on legal services.
About 11% of British adults have experienced wrongly distributed inheritance, either personally or through a member of their family, research has found
Revised guidelines give greater clarity on when intermeddling will be prosecuted, as Daniel Maine reports
Finders International has won the ‘probate research firm of the year’―for the second time in 2020 
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NLJ career profile: Liz McGrath KC

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