Contentious probate update Exeter
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- Contentious probate update Exeter
Date: 1 October 2026
Starts: 9:30 am
Ends: 4:30 pm
Venue: Sandy Park
Location: Sandy Park Way, Exeter EX2 7NN
Cost: £195 + VAT
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Our Wills & Trusts team are delighted to invite you to their annual contentious probate conference
The seminar aims to bring practitioners up to speed with all the latest developments in the world of contentious probate.
It is principally targeted at solicitors who are (or would like to be) involved in contentious probate work, but it would also be of interest to non-contentious lawyers, will writing firms and professional executors.
The conference will be chaired by Jody Atkinson and will conclude with an interactive session led by Alex Troup KC.
Topics include:
- Making the most of the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987, Daniel Soar
- Deeds of Variation: understanding their status and enforcement, Jack Pankhurst
- Case update on executor/trustee removal, Georgina Thompson
- What to do when it appears a party may lack the mental capacity required to conduct litigation and other related issues, John Dickinson
- Trustee Proceedings and Joinder, Oliver Wooding
- The ordering and use of DNA evidence in inheritance disputes and kin inquiries, Michael Clarke
- Electronic Signatures and Informal Dealings with Land, Christopher Jones
- Trusts in the world of probate (workshop), Alex Troup KC
Tickets @ £195 + VAT | 3 for 2 offer
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Alex Troup KC
- Call: 1998
- Silk: 2023
Alex is Head of our Wills & Trusts team and is recognised for his impressive chancery practice. He is the only silk ranked in private wealth outside of London in the High Net Worth Guide 2025. Alex specialises...

John Dickinson
- Call: 1995
John is a barrister specialising in contentious probate, Court of Protection, all areas of real estate work including conveyancing disputes, boundaries and easements, landlord & tenant, partnership, banking, pensions, insolvency, company law and shareholder disputes. John’s commercial practice...

Christopher Jones
- Call: 2004
Christopher is a chancery and commercial specialist with particular emphasis on trust litigation and advice, contentious and non-contentious probate applications, real property litigation (particularly in relation to easements, restrictive covenants and contracts for the sale of land) and...

Michael Clarke
- Call: 2009
Michael has a wide chancery-based practice focusing on wills and trusts. He is regularly instructed as an advocate and/or to advise upon a diverse range of matters. His work includes: Contentious probate and administration of estates and trusts...

Jody Atkinson
- Call: 2005
Jody specialises in family financial work including wills and trusts. He is able to bring his wide experience in these areas to resolving the most complex and challenging disputes. Jody’s divorce and financial remedy practice focuses on the...

Oliver Wooding
- Call: 2009
Oliver has a specialist practice that focuses on wills and trusts, and real estate matters, and the overlap between them. He is regularly instructed as an advocate, advisor, and mediator in a wide range of disputes. Recent cases...

Daniel Soar
- Call: 2016
Daniel has an established chancery practice – covering the traditional areas of probate, property and trusts – appearing regularly in the High Court, County Court and Property Tribunals. As part of his probate practice, Daniel frequently advises on...

Georgina Thompson
- Call: 2017
Georgina is an experienced junior barrister specialising in commercial law and wills and trusts disputes. She has a developed a practice focused on resolving complex legal disputes by providing clear, practical, and sensitive advice to a wide range...

Jack Pankhurst
- Call: 2021
Jack is a specialist commercial and chancery barrister and a trained mediator. His practice spans the breadth of commercial disputes, including company and insolvency; contractual disputes; offshore work; wills and trust litigation; professional negligence claims; property matters; and...
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