HQ6: In-Person CPD Event - Smithfield

This highly-anticipated in-person CPD event brings together three highly regarded speakers for a morning focused on Probate Law. Each speaker brings significant expertise and practical experience, offering valuable insight into the challenges solicitors and practitioners face when managing estates in practice.

Líosa Beechinor BL

• "Administration of Estates – Probate Papers Alterations, Codicils and Appended Documents"
• Líosa is a barrister practising in probate and succession law, as well as land law, conveyancing, trusts, and landlord and tenant matters. She regularly appears before the courts in these areas and also provides opinions and advisory work on related non-contentious matters.

Laurie Darcy

• "Will-Annexed Applications Demystified"
• Laurie is a solicitor specialising in probate practice. She works with firms to progress probate files and resolve rejected applications, with a strong focus on improving processes and reducing risk. Laurie holds the STEP Diploma and tutors on the Law Society PPC Advanced Probate & Tax module.

Jim Dalton

• "E-Probate: Latest Updates"
• Jim Dalton of the Irish Courts Service works within the ICT Digital Team and leads the e-Probate project, which is focused on digitally transforming the probate process and enabling online probate applications.

Together, this distinguished panel will share practical guidance and real-world perspectives designed to support practitioners working in probate and succession matters.

Info: This practical workshop will provide a clear, step-by-step guide to will-annexed applications in probate practice. Laurie Darcy will walk through the circumstances in which such applications arise, the relevant documentation required, and common issues practitioners encounter when preparing these applications. Designed as a “back to basics” session, the workshop aims to give practitioners a practical understanding of the process and increase confidence when dealing with will-annexed probate matters.

Info: An update and review of recent case law concerning the testamentary papers to be submitted to probate, the effect of pre-death alterations to those papers, the impact of the execution of codicils on those testamentary papers and the appending (including apparent appending) of or referral to documents to be admitted to proof.

Info: This session will provide an update on the Courts Service e-Probate system, a digital initiative designed to modernise the probate application process in Ireland. Jim Dalton will outline the progress of the project, key features of the system, and what practitioners can expect as probate services move online.

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