Booth v Booth and Others: CA 5 Feb 2010
Maurice Kay, Rimer LJJ, Sir Paul Kennedy [2010] EWCA Civ 27, [2010] WTLR 941 Bailii England and Wales Updated: 22 February 2021; Ref: scu.396599 br> The post Booth v Booth and Others: CA 5 Feb 2010...
View ArticleGhai, Regina (on The Application of) v Newcastle City Council and Others: CA...
The claimant appealed against a refusal of an order refusing him permission to use land for the purposes of an open air cremations, as required by his religion. Held: His appeal succeeded. The 1902 Act...
View ArticleScarle James Deceased, The Estate of v Scarle Marjorie Deceased, The Estate...
HH Judge Kramer [2019] EWHC 2224 (Ch), [2019] WLR(D) 483 Bailii, WLRD England and Wales Updated: 22 February 2021; Ref: scu.640891 br> The post Scarle James Deceased, The Estate of v Scarle Marjorie...
View ArticleRea v Rea and Others: ChD 13 Sep 2019
Arkush DM [2019] EWHC 2434 (Ch) Bailii England and Wales Updated: 22 February 2021; Ref: scu.641415 br> The post Rea v Rea and Others: ChD 13 Sep 2019 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleZeital and Another v Kaye and Others: CA 5 Mar 2010
The deceased had held an apartment through beneficial interests in shares in a limited company. He died intestate. The parties disputed the ownership of the two shares. The company had been put into a...
View ArticleKey and Another v Key and Others: ChD 5 Mar 2010
The will was challenged for want of testamentary capacity. The testator was 89 years old, and the will was made within a week of the death of his wife of 65 years and without the solicitor having taken...
View ArticleWahab v Khan and Others; In re Abdus Sattar Sheikh deceased: ChD 12 Apr 2011
The claimant had asked the court to revoke the probate granted in his brother’s estate. He appealed now against a strike out of his request. He alleged that the will was a forgery. The executor’s and...
View ArticleSelkrig v Davis: 1814
Rules in Hotchpot (1814) 2 Rose 291 England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Cleaver, Bodden v Delta American Reinsurance Company PC 1-Feb-2001 (Cayman Islands) In the course of trading the company had...
View ArticleIn The Goods Of Samuel William Lewis (Deceased), On Motion: 27 Feb 1858
[1858] EngR 413 (A), (1858) 1 Sw and Tr 31 Commonlii England and Wales Updated: 23 February 2021; Ref: scu.288884 br> The post In The Goods Of Samuel William Lewis (Deceased), On Motion: 27 Feb 1858...
View ArticleAuchnie and Auchnie v Auchnie and Auchnie: ScSf 5 Feb 2013
Action of count reckoning and payment in respect of the estate of the late William Duncan Auchnie [2013] ScotSC 8 Bailii Scotland Updated: 23 February 2021; Ref: scu.513832 br> The post Auchnie and...
View ArticleMoore v Holdsworth and Others: ChD 12 Mar 2010
The claimant sought reasonable provision from the estate of her late husband. She suffered advanced multiple sclerosis, and the estate was relatively small, from which she was to receive...
View ArticleIn re Hallett’s Estate; Knatchbull v Hallett: CA 1880
Where a trustee of a policy used money received from others to make payment of premiums on an insurance policy, they would be entitled to a lien on the policy. Where an asset was acquired exclusively...
View ArticleHyett v Stanley and others: CA 20 Jun 2003
The couple had lived together at the property without being married for several years. The house was held in the man’s sole name, and after his death she sought a half share in it. It was established...
View ArticleWright v Doe Dem Sandford Tatham: KBD 13 Jun 1837
The court was asked as to the understanding of th edeceased when he made his will. Letters, found in the house, were produced and the court now asked whether they could be used in evidence. Held: such...
View ArticleDoe on the Demise of John Birtwhistle v Agnes Vardill: KBD 1835
Quaere, whether a child, born in Scotland, of parents domiciled there, who at the time of his birth were not married, but who afterwards intermarried in Scotland, (neither having in the meantime...
View ArticleMurtaza Husain Khan v Mohammad Yasin Ali Khan: PC 21 Jul 1916
(Oudh) [1916] UKPC 71 Bailii England and Wales Updated: 24 February 2021; Ref: scu.423671 br> The post Murtaza Husain Khan v Mohammad Yasin Ali Khan: PC 21 Jul 1916 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleFalconar Stewart v Wilkies: SCS 16 Mar 1892
A person disponed heritable estate to persons in a certain order of succession ‘under this declaration, burden, and condition, that in the event of any part of the said lands and estate . . that may...
View ArticleCurlewis v The Earl Of Mornington, Administrator Of James Fitzroy Henry...
[1857] EngR 180, (1857) 7 El and Bl 283, (1857) 119 ER 1252 Commonlii England and Wales Updated: 24 February 2021; Ref: scu.289926 br> The post Curlewis v The Earl Of Mornington, Administrator Of...
View ArticlePage and Others v West and Others: ChD 12 Mar 2010
[2010] EWHC 504 (Ch) Bailii England and Wales Updated: 24 February 2021; Ref: scu.408666 br> The post Page and Others v West and Others: ChD 12 Mar 2010 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleGarland v Morris and Another: ChD 11 Jan 2007
The claimant sought additional provision from her father’s estate. She said that the will failed to make reasonable provsion for her, bearing in mind her extreme financial needs. She was a single...
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