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Undue influence: Reform needed?
Emily Exton and Rebecca Welman provide a summary of recent undue influence cases and outline their relevance for practitioners ‘It is long established that mere persuasion of the testator which results in a change of mind will not amount to undue influence.’ English law distinguishes between undue influence in the context of lifetime gifts and …
Cases Referenced
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- Boyse v Rossborough [1857] 6 HLC 2
- Cowderoy v Cranfield [2011] WTLR 1699
- Edwards v Edwards & ors [2007] EWHC 1119 (Ch); [2007] WTLR 1387 ChD
- Gill v Woodall & ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1430; [2011] WTLR 251 CA
- Re Chin [2019] EWHC 523 (Ch)
- Re Devillebichot; Brennan v Prior [2013] WTLR 1701
- Re Killick (deceased) [1999] All ER (D) 365; [2000] WTLR 41
- Royal Bank of Scotland v Etridge [2001] UKHL 44
- Wharton v Bancroft [2012] WTLR 693
- Wingrove v Wingrove (1895) 11 PD 81