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Estate administration: More than remote
Personal representatives risk being personally liable if they fail to discharge their duties to creditors. Adam Carvalho and Joseph de Lacey discuss recent judicial guidance on the scope of due diligence It was not clear whether the executors would be able to rely on the protection in s27 in circumstances where, even if no response …
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- National Westminster Bank plc v Lucas & ors [2014] EWHC 653 (Ch)
- Re Studdert [2020] EWHC 1869 (Ch); [2020] WTLR 1097 ChD
- Re Tankard [1942] Ch 69
- Re Yorke (deceased) [1997] 4 All ER 907