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Wills: The law of unintended consequences
Using standard wording for survivorship clauses in mirror wills can lead to errors. Tim Adams and Scott Taylor examine the High Court’s current approach to will-drafting mistakes ‘The ordinary and natural meaning of the survivorship clause is that anyone who is named in the will must survive the testator by 28 days in order to …
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- Jump v Lister & anr [2016] EWHC 2160; [2017] WTLR 61 ChD
- Marley v Rawlings [2011] WTLR 595 ChD; [2012] WTLR 639 CA; [2014] WTLR 299 SC; [2014] WTLR 1511 SC (costs)
- Reading & anr v Reading & ors [2015] EWHC 946 (Ch); [2015] WTLR 1245 ChD
- Royal Society v Robinson [2015] EWHC 3442 (Ch)
- Sammut v Manzi [2009] WTLR 1051
- Slattery v Jagger [2015] EWHC 3976 (Ch)