Lindsay Gutteridge

Update Your Will Week 2023. This week (23rd – 29th January) is Update Your Will Week , an awareness campaign hosted by Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) to encourage more people to update their will and ensure their wishes are carried out when they...

Business as Usual? If you are a business owner, planning for the future is something that often gets pushed to the bottom of the list, particularly following a global pandemic. Lawyers like myself spend a lot of time reminding business owners to put in...

It was announced that NICE , the health watchdog, has advised that patients must be treated with respect and compassion and doctors should avoid making 'snap decisions' about whether someone was dying. This has been in response to...

MPs are currently debating whether some terminally ill people in England and Wales should be allowed to end their lives with medical supervision. Whatever your opinion on the Dignity in Dying debate, and whatever the outcome of this proposed ...

Last month, customers of HSBC who have Wills which appoint HSBC as their executors, received a letter out of the blue advising them that HSBC will no longer be able to act for them in this role. This is because HSBC has sold off their Wills business to a...

Last week The Department of Health announced that the proposed date (April 2016) for changes to the way care funding will be charged, will be delayed until 2020. It was initially proposed that from April 2016, if you were contributing to the...