Private Client weekly highlights—3 March 2022

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This week’s edition of Private Client highlights includes: (1) The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for Private Client; (2) Further updates to the Trust Registration Manual; (3) DHSC guidance on social care charging for local authorities; (4) HMRC guidance on transferring the unused basic threshold for inheritance tax; (5) A roundup of recent disputes on non-fungible tokens which are relevant to private clients and their advisors; (6) The government publishes the Draft Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022; (7) Dawson v Dawson, in which the Court dismissed a proprietary estoppel counterclaim and granted probate of a lost Will; (8) The Charity Commission responds to the enactment of the Charities Act 2022, and (9) HMRC publishes new POTAS guidance based on the new rules in Finance Act 2022.