Barnsley and Others v Noble: CA 2 Aug 2016
The court was asked as to the proper interpretation of an exoneration clause contained in a will to relieve the trustees under trusts set out in the will of personal liability in respect of certain...
View ArticleNational Westminster Bank Plc v Lucas and Others: ChD 27 Jul 2016
Final judgment in settlement of Jimmy Saville Estate. References: [2016] EWHC 1934 (Ch) Links: Bailii Judges: Warren J Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 23 October 2020; Ref: scu.567646...
View ArticleButler and Another v Butler and Another: ChD 20 Jul 2016
References: [2016] EWHC 1793 (Ch) Links: Bailii Judges: Simon Barker QC Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 23 October 2020; Ref: scu.567645 br> The post Butler and Another v Butler and...
View ArticleSir John Smith, Knight v Thomas Starling Day And Henry Framlingham Day,...
An executor, after payment of all the debts of which he had notice, invested certain parts of the residue of the testator’s personal estate remaining in his hands, in the funds in his own name,...
View ArticleRe Moss, Larke v Nugus: CA 1979
Executors To Give Information Avoiding Expense (Decided in approximately 1979) The signature of the testatrix, an elderly woman, was distinctly wobbly, the will contained a gift, as it was put by the...
View ArticleBaker and Another v Dunne and Others: ChD 20 Sep 2016
Application for Beddoe relief References: [2016] EWHC 2318 (Ch) Links: Bailii Judges: Marsh CM Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 24 October 2020; Ref: scu.569649 br> The post Baker and...
View ArticleThe Royal Society v Robinson and Others: ChD 17 Nov 2015
Claim to construe a Will or in the alternative to rectify it, or in the further alternative for it to be admitted to probate with certain words omitted. Held: The court construed a reference to ‘the...
View ArticleRiley v Seed and Another: ChD 11 Jun 2013
References: [2013] EWHC 4863 (Ch) Links: Bailii Judges: Hodge QC HHJ Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 24 October 2020; Ref: scu.569401 br> The post Riley v Seed and Another: ChD 11 Jun...
View ArticleJump and Another v Lister and Another: ChD 12 Aug 2016
Omnibus Survivorship Clauses Wills for two people hade been drafted with survivorship clauses which provided for others according to the order in which they died, but in the event, having died together...
View ArticleEdkins v Hopkins and Others: ChD 21 Oct 2016
Allegation of lack of testamentary capacity References: [2016] EWHC 2542 (Ch) Links: Bailii Judges: Jarman QC HHJ Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 25 October 2020; Ref: scu.570908 br>...
View ArticleAmes v Jones and Others: Misc 19 Aug 2016
References: [2016] EW Misc B67 (CC) Links: Bailii Judges: Mr Recorder Halpern QC Statutes: Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 25...
View ArticleRe JS (Disposal of Body): FD 10 Nov 2016
Child’s Wish for post-mortem cryonic Preservation JS, a child of 14, anticpating her death from cancer expressed the desire that her body should receive cryonic preservation in the hope that one day a...
View ArticleCrabbe v Townsend: ChD 7 Oct 2016
References: [20161 EWHC 2450 (Ch) Links: Bailii Judges: John Martin QC Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 25 October 2020; Ref: scu.570473 br> The post Crabbe v Townsend: ChD 7 Oct 2016...
View ArticleGuney v Kingsley Napley and Another: QBD 28 Sep 2016
References: [2016] EWHC 2349 (QB) Links: Bailii Judges: McGowan J Statutes: Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 25 October 2020; Ref:...
View ArticleHaastrup and Another v Haastrup and Another: ChD 21 Dec 2016
References: [2016] EWHC 3311 (Ch) Links: Bailii Judges: Master Matthews Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 26 October 2020; Ref: scu.572755 br> The post Haastrup and Another v Haastrup and...
View ArticleAdepoju v Akinola: ChD 7 Dec 2016
The claimant disputed whether the defendant had been lawfully married to the claimat’s deceased mother, and possible marriage having been polygaous, and without the defendant having divorced his first...
View ArticleRust v Baker: 10 Jun 1837
References: [1837] EngR 831, (1837) 8 Sim 443, (1837) 59 ER 176 Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 27 October 2020; Ref: scu.313948 br> The post Rust v Baker: 10 Jun 1837...
View ArticleShepherd v Wheeler: ChD 2000
An application was made without notice for the appointment of an alleged creditor under section 116 as administrator of the deceased’s intestate estate. Held: The court applied the standard principles...
View ArticleJames and Another v Allen and others: ChD 30 Jun 1817
The testator left a bequest in trust for such ‘benevolent purposes’ as the trustees might unanimously agree upon. Held: The word ‘benevolent’ when coupled with another was not sufficient to restrict...
View ArticleRe Ducksbury (deceased): 1996
Test for Reasonable Provision for Widow Buckley J said: ‘it is not for me to try to effect the sort of testamentary dispositions which I think that a testator should have made or would have made had...
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