Christopher Lehane is a practising barrister. He recently retired as an officer of the High Court where he served for 42 years, 22 years of which were spent in the Probate Office and 12 years as Official Assignee in Bankruptcy. He served as Deputy Probate Officer of Ireland for eight years and Assistant Probate Officer of Ireland for five years, administering probate law in Ireland. He was Consultant in Probate Law in the Law Society of Ireland for 15 years, teaching and examining solicitor students and giving CPD talks for qualified solicitors. He also lectured in Griffith College Dublin in executorship law for 11 years, teaching ACCA and CPA students. Christopher currently runs CPD webinars for solicitors on developments in succession law. He has written the student manuals in the Law Society on probate and in Griffith College Dublin on executorship law.
The title of this impressive tome, which extends to circa, 1000 pages, fails to reflect the detailed treatment received by many issues which crop up for probate practitioners on a daily basis but do not neatly fall within the rubric of succession law. In both the foreword and the preface, the text is referred to as a one stop authority designed for busy practitioners, administrators and students. This is an accurate description... [T]his book is a very valuable addition to the literature in the area. I strongly suspect it will become indispensable. -- Una Woods * The Irish Jurist *