Worby, Worby and Worby v Rosser: CA 28 May 1999
Three potential beneficiaries sought payment from a solicitor of the costs of resisting the grant of probate to a will, saying that he had owed them a duty of care to ensure that the testator did not...
View ArticleSamuel v Samuel and Others: ChD 17 Dec 2018
By an application notice the First Defendant, Syleta Monica Susan Samuel, applies for an order that a probate claim brought by her sister, Merlina Jacqueline Samuel, be struck out as an abuse of...
View ArticleKayll v Rawlinson: ChD 2010
The parties disputed the validity of a will. Held: (obiter) David Richards J said that because it was common ground that the terms of the attestation clause did not reflect the manner in which the...
View ArticleWatts v Watts: CA 21 Dec 2015
The barrister for one of the parties was junior Counsel to the fee-paid judge in another case, which they had been working on together for the past year. The opponent appealed a refusal of the judge to...
View ArticleHaley v Siddiqui and Others: ChD 28 Feb 2014
Judges: Hodge QC HHJ Citations: [2014] EWHC 835 (Ch) Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 28 December 2022; Ref: scu.523720 The post Haley v Siddiqui and Others: ChD...
View ArticleRobert Leigh, Plaintiff; John Wood And John Leigh, Defendants: 1674
Citations: [1674] EngR 66, (1674) Fin H 135, (1674) 23 ER 73 (B) Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.406065 The post Robert Leigh,...
View ArticleScipio Lesquire An Infant, By Susan His Mother And Guardian, Plaintiff;...
Citations: [1674] EngR 69, (1674) Fin H 134, (1674) 23 ER 73 (A) Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.406068 The post Scipio Lesquire...
View ArticleRobert Burgh An Infant, By His Guardian, Executor of Eleanor Burgh, Executrix...
Joint Executors, one of them died and the Executor of the Executor of him who was dead, brought a Bill to be relieved against an Action of Trover brought by the surviving Executor, who demurred for...
View ArticlePrice v Dewhurst: 6 May 1837
Citations: [1837] EngR 717, (1837) 8 Sim 279, (1837) 59 ER 111 Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.313834 The post Price v Dewhurst: 6...
View ArticleIn Re Thurlow, Decd Riddick and Another v Kennard and Others: ChD 7 Jul 1971
cw Will – Construction – ‘Descendants’ – Residuary estate to be divided between descendants of late mother and of late father – Modern legal and ordinary meaning of ‘descendants’ – Whether...
View ArticleThe Attorney General for New South Wales v The Curator of Intestate Estates:...
(New South Wales) Citations: [1907] UKPC 48 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: Australia Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.419844 The post The Attorney General for New South Wales v The...
View ArticleGlaholm v Rowntree and Matchett, Executors Of Clark: 3 May 1837
Citations: [1837] EngR 693, (1837) 6 Ad and E 710, (1837) 112 ER 273 Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate, Insurance Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.313810 The post...
View ArticleMason v Bogg: 4 May 1837
Citations: [1837] EngR 700, (1837) 2 My and Cr 443, (1837) 40 ER 709 Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Insolvency, Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.313817 The post...
View ArticleBowles v Jackson: 28 Apr 1854
A soldier under orders to proceed from his station in one Indian presidency to take part in the war going on in another; and making his will only two clays before he commenced the march, is not...
View ArticleWeldon v Hoyland: 15 Mar 1862
Citations: [1862] EngR 537, (1862) 4 De G F and J 564, (1862) 45 ER 1303 Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.286703 The post Weldon v...
View ArticleHealey v Brown: ChD 25 Apr 2002
The two deceased had made mutual wills bequeathing the family home. The survivor transferred the property during his life to defeat the agreement. It was now said that the arrangement fell foul of the...
View ArticleIn re Estate of R Deceased: ChD 16 Apr 2021
Citations: [2021] EWHC 936 (Ch) Links: Bailii Statutes: Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 09 December 2022; Ref:...
View ArticlePhoenix v Phoenix and Another: ChD 18 Jun 2020
Judges: Deputy Master Linwood Citations: [2020] EWHC 1409 (Ch) Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 09 December 2022; Ref: scu.651915 The post Phoenix v Phoenix and...
View ArticleGardiner v Tabe and Another: ChD 12 Jun 2020
Defendants’ application seeking non-party disclosure Citations: [2020] EWHC 1471 (Ch) Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 09 December 2022; Ref: scu.651909 The post...
View ArticleDennis’s Trustees v Dennis and Others: HL 19 May 1924
A testator, who was survived by his wife, left as part of his estate certain stocks and shares, some of which stood in the joint names of himself and his wife, and others in the joint names of himself...
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