Michael Graham, head of the private client team at Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors, has been elected to a STEP committee on legal capacity.

Mr Graham is one of four candidates elected to the committee of the Society of Step and Estate Practitioners’s (STEP) mental capacity global Special Interest Group.

The group’s focus is on increasing the importance and relevance of issues regarding capacity for all aspects of legal work, including inheritance and succession planning. The group also aims to ensure that all members are kept up to date with developments, are part of the debate and contribute to shaping the future where possible.

Mr Graham specialises in trusts, tax, the administration of estates and issues affecting elderly and vulnerable clients.

He is a former chair of STEP’s Northern Ireland branch.