Spotlight on Private Wealth - February 2025

Welcome to Spotlight on Private Wealth

This update is designed to keep you on top of developments in the private wealth world. In this edition, we explore a broad range of topics including the raft of proposals in the autumn budget, AI authentication of art work and an important Supreme Court decision on costs recovery.

We hope you find this update helpful and interesting. As always, if you would like to find out more about the issues covered or discuss anything else, please do get in touch.

The big question

• Is there such thing as a moral claim?
  
  

What's new?

• Supreme Court decides success fees are not recoverable in 1975 Inheritance Act proceedings
• Court considers claim on a Devon farm
  
  

RPC asks

• Can "children" include non-biological children?
• What are the implications of the autumn budget for private individuals?
• How do you unlock the power of natural capital?

And finally in the art world …

• AI authentication- the future?