Will writing chief puts programme in perspective

The country’s leading professional body for the will writing industry claims the August 9 Panorama programme supported what it has always said: that a will is one of the most important documents a person will ever write and should be carried out by a qualified, person belonging to a regulated body.
However, Brian McMillan, Director General […]

Will writing featured on television

The BBC television channel featured Will Writing in its Panorama programme this week. It tried to show problems in the industry, but does it from a biased point of view and as they say themselves at Panorama, it is an entertainment programme so it is ‘edited’ to show itself as such.
They didn’t give the industry […]

£390,000 to the hairdresser, but is it legal?

A legal encounter has been launched by the family of two sisters over the content of a last will and testament that has seen £400,000 go to the ladies’ hairdresser.
The sisters, Ethel Wilson and Mabel Cook had their hair set each week by Jill Fraser for more than 40 years. The widowed sisters had […]

Maid works well towards inheritance

A Filipina maid has changed from being a poor person to a multi millionaire.
The person she worked for died recently aged just 66. In her will the lady left her maid a total of around 6 million Singapore dollars, for the maid’s hard work over the previous 20 years. That’s around US$ 4.4 at today’s […]

Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins funeral poem

Following his death last week, aged 61, from cancer, the former world champion snooker player was laid to rest today, in Belfast.
During the service, his 29 year old daughter, Lauren Higgins, read a poem she’d written, as a tribute to her father.
It read:
You never said I’m leaving, you never said goodbye.
You were gone before […]

Inception film highlights legal services

Inception is the new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Michael Caine. It starts by telling us about the ways that dreams can be implanted into people so they dream what they’re told to dream about. Whether it’s possible or not isn’t the problem; the difficulty is in the legal services they need to […]

Where your inheritance went

Did your family throw away most of your inheritance by giving it to the government in speeding fines?
New figures show speed cameras earn money for the Government, but do not reduce casualties on the road. Immediately people will agree with this statement because they believed it all along (Canada withdrew them for this very reason […]

Forced retirement?

Paul the octopus has retired. There’s always the question of when you should retire, providing health doesn’t stop you from making that choice. It’s how you’ve planned for your time in retirement that really dictates when you can retire.
Paul has been extremely lucky or in some people’s eyes, skillful, recently. He managed to guess the […]

Tell the government which laws to change

Brits now have the opportunity to go online to a special government website and suggest which laws should be changed and which red tape should be finished.
There’s no doubt that the previous government had gone new law ‘crazy’ and introduced ‘red tape’ burdens on both individuals and family. They hid behind the threat or terrorism […]

Daddy has got married again

This would be a welcoming sign among many families, but it’s also an unwelcome indication among many other families. It all depends upon how the children get on with the new step-mother.
Leo Abse died in 2008, aged 91. The first point is that he’s regarded as being of sound mind when he updated his will […]