The late Mrs June Clark made thirteen separate wills between 2004 and her death in 2016, all of which were deemed invalid because she executed a mirror will with her husband in 2000, which has been upheld as being a mutual will. Mutual wills are wills that are made by Read more…
Denzil Lush, the former Senior Judge of the Court of Protection has warned about the dangers of granting Lasting Powers Of Attorney to friends or relatives and has vowed that he would never sign one. A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is a legal document by which a person nominates Read more…
A long-standing court battle between a number of charities and a daughter who had been left out of her mother’s Will has finally concluded, following a judgment of the Supreme Court which overturned the Court of Appeal’s previous decision and re-instated the original Judge’s decision. Some 13 years after the Read more…
On 28th January 2016, the Court of Appeal delivered its judgement in the case of Burns V Burns which represents the latest statement from the court regarding the law on mental capacity required to make a valid will and the basis upon which a will can be overturned. The appeal Read more…
You may have seen in the news this week a story about a Court of Appeal decision given in the case of Watts v Watts, which left one of the two children of Valerie Watts facing a bill for £340,000 from his sister’s solicitors. The decision handed down by the Court of Appeal on Read more…