Alan Barr was formerly Director of the Law School's Legal Practice Unit and is now an Honorary Fellow in the School. His research interests include all forms of taxation, particularly in the field of tax planning, wills and succession, with an emphasis on practical implications and drafting; and practical legal education. He has taught previously at the University of Glasgow and briefly at the Universities of Botswana and Lesotho on post-qualifying legal education. He contributes regular articles to the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland and other legal journals. He has been a part-time consultant for the leading Edinburgh law firm, Brodies LLP, since 1997.
Written by practitioners for practitioners, this important book covers all matters relating to the drafting of wills. It is both a practical compendium of wills styles and a comprehensive commentary on the law. The text concentrates on practical matters, providing reasons for adopting particular styles and supplying alternative clauses or wording for different circumstances. The narrative is clearly written in contemporary language. It is extensively cross-referenced to the appendix, which contains a comprehensive selection of wills and codicils.New for the second edition: All practical and legislative changes in the last 10 years are incorporated Styles are recast in a much more modern form of drafting and reflecting changes in taxation and execution of deeds, esp. in relation to the Requirements of Writing (S) Act 1995 The "problem solving" section has been expanded to consider the main schemes currently on offer in relation to will drafting as part of the testator's overall inheritance tax planning.
Alan Barr 'Stamp Duties and VAT' in A.J. McDonald, Stewart Brymer, Douglas J. Cusine, Robert Rennie (eds) Professor McDonald's conveyancing manual (T. & T. Clark, 1997) pp.56-68
Sandra Eden, Alan Barr 'Checking and Revising Tax and Related Matters' in Iain Talman (eds) Halliday, Conveyancing Law and Practice (2nd ed) (W. Green/SULI, 1996)
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