CILEx publishes EDI strategy and diversity report, with focus on improving access to services
CILEx Regulation has published its new EDI strategy setting out its key objectives for the next three years, along with its Diversity Data Report for 2025. CILEx regulates chartered legal executive lawyers, other members of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) and law firms. Data for the diversity report is drawn directly from the […]
Estate disputes from the outside: When executors must take legal action
In the first of an eight-part series exploring executor disputes, Nicola K Smith, senior associate with the Contentious Trusts and Probate team at Forbes Solicitors, sets out when and how a Beddoe application could be useful in a claim brought against an estate. Sometimes the biggest threat to an estate doesn’t come from within […]