Alan Dickins
Partner
Specialisms and expertise
- A wide variety of contentious work
- The administration of high value estates, often including foreign assets
- Lloyd's interests
- Agricultural property
- Probate disputes.
Past and present projects
- Successful defence of a High Court action for probate of a forged Will
- Successful application to the High Court for the removal of non-performing executors
- Use of the caveat procedure
- Conduct of claims for inheritance tax reliefs
- Appeal to the Special Commissioners
- Collection of US assets and compliance with IRS requirements
- High Court application for permission to distribute the estate of a deceased Lloyd's Name.
Profile
After graduating from Cambridge University Alan qualified in 1972 and practised in Chichester and then Oxford before joining Thomson Snell & Passmore in 1993.