Publications and Conferences

25 March 2021 : Cross border conference organised by the Private Client section of the Law Society of…

Diane Le Grand de Belleroche introduced, from a French point of view and in international situations, the following legal and tax issues : concepts of domicile and residence, Process of administration… Read more…

January 2021 : Paper on forced heirship rights attached to the report of the Working Group on forced…

In 2019, the French ministry of justice instructed a Working Group to review in details the French concept of forced heirship rights. Diane Le Grand de Belleroche was heard by this Working Group to address… Read more…

24 November 2020 : Newsletter : Bill comforting Republican principles purporting to reform forced heirship…

If adopted, a new mechanism organising a compensation could be used by children, in any succession which would not be governed by French law and which would include assets located in France, when particular… Read more…

Duncan Fairgrieve publishes major book with OUP

In 2019, Pr. Duncan Fairgrieve has published with leading academic publisher Oxford University Press the 2nd edition of the book Negligence Liability of Public Authorities (2nd edition, OUP) co-authored… Read more…

2 December 2019 (Paris): “International public policy issues in family law and succession law: comparisons…

At a conference of comparative law which was organised in Paris by the French section of the Franco-British Lawyers’ Society (FBLS), Diane Le Grand de Belleroche spoke on the questions of international… Read more…

November 2019, STEP Journal: "A home away from home"

Article (in English) on the analysis made by the French courts of the notion, within the European Succession Regulation, of “habitual residence”, in two important decisions involving successions between… Read more…

3 October 2019 in Edinburgh, and 4 October in Aberdeen (Scotland): “Property and Succession in France…

Diane Le Grand de Belleroche spoke at a seminar organised by the Scottish section of the Franco-British Lawyers Society (FBLS), on the specific issues to be considered in successions split between France… Read more…

30 August 2019, Riga (Latvia): “Presentation of the key points of the European Succession Regulation”…

Diane Le Grand de Belleroche spoke during a conference relating to the civil and commercial cooperation within the European Union which had been organised by ERA for the training of Latvian judges, to… Read more…

16 and 17 May 2019 (Trier, Germany): "Planning cross-border succession"

Diane Le Grand de Belleroche spoke at a conference organised by ERA on cross-border successions which gathered practitioners from the whole of the European Union, on “choices of law and public policy”.… Read more…

March 2019: « Trust : Introduction to the concept of trust and legal recognition of foreign trusts under…

Updated version, by Diane Le Grand de Belleroche, of chapter 2570 relating to “Trusts : Introduction to the concept of trust and legal recognition of foreign trusts under French law”, in “Ingéniérie du… Read more…