Wills

The purchase of a French property via a French property holding company, called Société Civile Immobilière, in short, SCI, was often recommended to British nationals before the application of [...]

Lord Templeman is famous for being the law lord who set down the ‘golden rule’ in relation to Will drafting in the case of Re Simpson. Ironically, there is a dispute over his last Will between [...]

As every student or practitioner knows there are three elements to proprietary estoppel, as confirmed in Thorner v Major [2009] 1WLR 776, namely; A representation or assurance made to the [...]

The statistics which are often bandied around about the proportion of the population who have not made a Will are resolutely static. It seems to be "around two thirds" have not, a recent example [...]

In this case, one of the deceased’s sons, Rakesh, sought to pronounce against the Will of his mother for want of knowledge and approval of its contents. Mr Gupta had been born in India in 1924, [...]

In this article Daniele Muritano TEP of Legal4Italy addresses the problems regarding cross borders successions and forced heirs rights from an Italian perspective after the Succession Regulation [...]

Any British National owning French assets, and primarily French property, should consider their devolution under a Will. Beyond the question of the succession law applicable to their French [...]

Home-made Wills and litigants in person are certainly a sign of our more frugal times. A recent case on such a Will and whether it was properly attested & therefore valid is Payne v Payne [2018] [...]

The case of Nutt v Nutt [2018] EWHC 851 considered again the question of whether a particular Will was valid. Two of Mrs Nutt’s three children sought to establish their mother’s 2005 Will, under [...]

A person can validly attest a Will by writing his name in block capitals. So held the Court of Appeal in Payne v Payne [2018] EWCA Civ 985 in a judgment which dramatically illustrates the [...]