‘My online talk about Mediation Advocacy in the Tax-Efficient Settlement of Inheritance Act, Beneficial Interest & Proprietary Estoppel Claims.’

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I have obtained permission to change the title of my talk to members of the SCMA worldwide on 20 November 2025 to – ‘Mediation Advocacy in the Tax-Efficient Settlement of Inheritance Act, Beneficial Interest & Proprietary Estoppel Claims.’

The working title of my next book is ‘Mediation of International Cultural Heritage Disputes – Anachronism, Orientalism, Culture, Ethics & Law’ – See the ‘International Cultural Heritage Disputes’ page at www.carlislam.co.uk.

This will be written as both a multi-disciplinary academic course text book for Law Students, and as a handbook for Mediators and Mediation Advocates – globally. To view the current chapter structure, please visit the ‘International Cultural Heritage Disputes’ page at www.carlislam.co.uk. I have already started work on the book, and will be able to devote all of my available free time to it, after I have written the article above. That is likely to be from September 2025 onwards.

In August 2026, I am also planning to launch a YouTube Channel – ‘Art and Civilization.’ For more information, Google – www.artandcivilization.tv.

Although the ‘Art and Civilization’ and ‘Mediation of International Cultural Heritage Disputes’ projects are personally very close to my heart, I felt that I had to close the circle of writing I have undertaken and talks I have given, over the last 4 years about Mediation and Mediation Advocacy (i.e. facilitated negotiation) in Trust and Estate Disputes, by tackling Mediation Advocacy in the principal forms of claim associated with Contentious Probate.

Inheritance Act, Beneficial Interest and Proprietary Estoppel Claims are not Contentious Probate Claims, but are often brought as part of a complex multiple, and sometimes ‘kitchen-sink’, claim scenario. Throw tax-efficient settlement into the negotiation mix, and the result is a series of practical challenges for both Mediators and Mediation Advocates about which, as far as I am aware, nobody has yet presented a talk.

So, be prepared to have both your eyes opened wide and your imagination stretched, because for the amateur and the unwary, both Mediation and Mediation Advocacy in these disputes, is potentially a mine-field. That of course is both a challenge and an opportunity!