The HSE has published Guidelines for will making by older people in residential and day services. The purpose of the Guidelines is to facilitate older people in the care of the HSE and/or their agents, who wish to make a will and who wish to obtain legal advice to do so.

View a copy of the Guidelines here.

The papers from the seminar on ‘Locating Missing Beneficiaries in Estate Administration’ are now availble in the Members’ Library.

You will need the STEP password to access this section of the website.

Gunning v Sherry [2012] IEHC 88: High Court (Hogan J.) strikes out action against solicitor, who is the legal personal representative of the deceased, as an abuse of process and grants an “Isaac Wunder order” against plaintiff, restraining her from commencing any further action in respect of the same subject matter.

To view the decision of the High Court, please click here.