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.