Law Commission Wills Bill 2025 from both contentious and non-contentio

Ian is a solicitor and a member of the Law Society’s Wills & Equity Committee as well as a member of both STEP and the Association of Lifetime Lawyers. Ian specialises in all aspects of private client work including: the preparation of wills and estate planning; trust formation and administration; and, obtaining grants or representation and administering estates. Ian has wide ranging experience dealing with the administration of high value and complex estates, especially intestacy matters and has held a number of appointments by the courts as an independent administrator in disputed estates. He is the Law Society representative to both HMCTS’s Probate Professionals User Group and HMRC’s Trust & Estates Agents Advisory Group and he gave evidence on behalf of the Law Society to the Justice Select Committees investigation into the workings of the Probate Service.

Stephen Lawson is a Partner at the specialist Contentious Probate Firm, Idr Law, based in Harrogate. He is a member of both ACTAPS and STEP. Stephen was formerly a member of the STEP Worldwide Council and is currently the Chair of the Law Society Wills & Equity Committee.
Stephen is a joint author of the publication Testamentary Capacity with Martyn Frost and Professor Robin Jacoby. 
Stephen has worked extensively with the Law Commission on their Wills project since 2017. He is now a member of the Non-Contentious Probate Rules Working Party.
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Wednesday, 16 July  2025 | 10:30 AM GMT