Nicholas Bevan, is an award winning practicing solicitor, academic and a law reform activist. He was senior counsel at what is now Womble Bond Dickinson, before setting up his own legal consultancy service specialising in regulatory compliance and insurance law. He was awarded a doctorate in law in 2017 for his ground breaking research exposing the UK’s systemic breaches of the EU Motor Insurance Directives and for the new routes to redress he identified. He is currently working on a project for Solicitors Title LLP to modernise private client services. Nicholas is an extensively published author, legal commentator and editor.
In Video wills What the Government Really Said 31 July 2020 I highlighted the conflicting messaging within the government s press release and its Guidance on making wills using video conferencing which was published on
Calls For Changes To Wills Amid Pandemic accurately reports the widely held assumption that section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 insists on the physical presence of a testamentary witnesses This view has been adopted
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