Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice
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Source Currency: 33rd Edition.
Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice is the definitive work on probate and is extensively referred to by the Probate Registries. For December 2025's 33rd edition, the expert author team have provided a full update to all changes in case law, regulation, tax, and legislation since the publication of the fourth supplement to the 32nd edition in December 2024, along with consolidating all previous updates from earlier supplements into this new edition.
The 33rd edition has been updated to include:
Coverage of The Law Commission’s Final Report “Modernising Wills Law” and it's recommendations, including electronic wills, revocation by marriage or civil partnership, testamentary capacity, dispensing power, minimum age for making a will, and the question of undue influence;
Analysis of Probate Reform Initiatives as the group chaired by Sir Alastair Norris is reviewing and modernising the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987;
Consolidated updates to both the Rules and the Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004;
Recent case law including key developments in Hirachand v Hirachand [2024] UKSC 43, [2025] AC 599, clarifying the approach to financial provision and testamentary freedom;
Important Inheritance Tax (IHT) updates, and coverage of the Agricultural and Business Relief Cap, Nil-Rate Band and Residence Exemption, Simplified Estate Reporting.
Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice is the definitive work on probate and is extensively referred to by the Probate Registries. For December 2025's 33rd edition, the expert author team have provided a full update to all changes in case law, regulation, tax, and legislation since the publication of the fourth supplement to the 32nd edition in December 2024, along with consolidating all previous updates from earlier supplements into this new edition.
The 33rd edition has been updated to include:
Coverage of The Law Commission’s Final Report “Modernising Wills Law” and it's recommendations, including electronic wills, revocation by marriage or civil partnership, testamentary capacity, dispensing power, minimum age for making a will, and the question of undue influence;
Analysis of Probate Reform Initiatives as the group chaired by Sir Alastair Norris is reviewing and modernising the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987;
Consolidated updates to both the Rules and the Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004;
Recent case law including key developments in Hirachand v Hirachand [2024] UKSC 43, [2025] AC 599, clarifying the approach to financial provision and testamentary freedom;
Important Inheritance Tax (IHT) updates, and coverage of the Agricultural and Business Relief Cap, Nil-Rate Band and Residence Exemption, Simplified Estate Reporting.
Contributors
| Master Paul Teverson | Editorial team member |
| Terry Synak | Editorial team member |
| Roland d'Costa | Editorial team member |
