Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on WA legislation
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Executors Under the Microscope: Duties, Breaches and Remedies
- Key duties of executors
- Sins of omission and commission
- Grounds for removal
- Alternative remedies
Presented by Sally Bruce, Principal – Succession Planning & Estate Litigation, Cullen Macleod Lawyers; Preeminent Leading Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyer, Doyle's Guide 2025
Chair
Peter Nevin, Partner, Taylor Smart
Presenters
Peter Nevin, Partner, Taylor Smart
Peter Nevin is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation practice group of Taylor Smart Lawyers and Notaries. Admitted to practice in 1995, Peter's areas of expertise are wills and estate disputes, commercial litigation and employment law, with a particular interest in wills and estate litigation. He has acted as Counsel for executors, beneficiaries and claimants in relation to Family Provision Act claims, will disputes, capacity matters, estate administration disputes, and other contentious wills and estate matters, and was named by Doyle's Guide as a recommended wills and estate litigation lawyer in Western Australia in 2016 and 2017. Peter is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.
Sally Bruce, Principal – Succession Planning & Estate Litigation, Cullen Macleod Lawyers
Sally has more than 20 years' experience in estate litigation and succession planning. Estate litigation is a major part of Sally's practice. She has acted in many family provision disputes and strives to achieve cost effective mediated outcomes wherever possible. Sally's estate litigation practice also includes solemn form probate matters and other estate related court applications such as applications to construe the meaning of a will and applications for directions in the administration of an estate. Apart from estate litigation, Sally has extensive experience in the areas of succession planning, trusts, deceased estates and guardianship and administration. Sally is a regular presenter on the subjects of estate litigation and succession planning and has written numerous papers. She was recognised in Doyle's Guide 2016 listing of leading Perth Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyers as pre-eminent in this field.
