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Below are three Will finds taken from one day in February 2017. Will Find 1 (Next of Kin, not sure if a Will exists) Searcher: Member of the public searching for mother’s Will. Will Found: Conducted a Will Search, resulting in a match at firm H****& ****, members of Certainty the National Will Register.

Legal Eye, a subsidiary of ULS Technology, have launched subscription-based Compliance Bulletins for Solicitors, Licensed conveyancers and CILEx professionals.

Thomson Reuters has added Time and Billing capabilities to Firm Central, its cloud-based legal matter management solution for sole practitioners and small law firms.

tmgroup are pleased to report that they have recently made some minor amendments to key sections of their Premium Terms, adding clarity on certain points to better support their customers’ needs.

Shopper Anonymous, the UK’s leading legal client feedback organisation, have announced that they will be undertaking another Client Journey mystery shopping project in March 2017, following its success in 2016.

The appeal arises out of a claim for reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act (“the Act”), brought against the estate of Mrs Jackson by her daughter, Mrs Ilott. Mrs Ilott and her mother had been estranged for the majority of the 26 years preceding Mrs Jackson’s death in 2004. The estrangement began when Mrs Ilott left home at 17 to live with her now husband, with whom she has five children. Since that time Mrs Ilott has lived independently of her mother but in straitened financial circumstances. Mrs Ilott and her family received a number of benefits, with a net annual income of around £20,000.

We are delighted to welcome Tom Dumont of Radcliffe Chambers. Tom is one of the most in-demand juniors at the Chancery Bar. He has been Advocate of the Year at STEP’s Private Client Awards is one of the Lawyer’s Hot 100, Charities and not for profit – Barrister of the Year 2016 by Lawyer Monthly, and is among City Wealth’s Most Highly Regarded Figures in Private Wealth Management. He is equally at home in court, or advising clients.

This is due to a change in the law under the Water Act 2014, designed to introduce competition into the water industry. Whilst existing water companies will still own and maintain water and sewerage networks, services including billing, handling customer queries and complaints, and meter reading will be provided by a number of different companies. For more information on this click here.

Over the last eight years, through a few key underwriting agents, Elite has built a meaningful portfolio of construction industry insurance in France, concentrated on Dommages Ouvrage (‘’DO’’), Construction Bonds and decennial insurance for contractors (‘’RCD’’).

The Supreme Court is set to hand down its Judgment in a landmark appeal on Wednesday (15 March 2017) which specialist will dispute lawyers say could change the law for adult children seeking to challenge their parent’s wills if they don’t believe they have been left a reasonable provision.