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Testamentary intentions: Presuming too much
A challenge to a will on the grounds of want of knowledge and approval where a compos mentis testator has read a professionally prepared will may seem doomed. Daisy Brown analyses a rare successful case A testator who has waited 24 years to change his will and then inexplicably gives two sets of contradictory instructions …
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- Gill v Woodall & ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1430; [2011] WTLR 251 CA
- Hawes v Burgess & anor [2013] EWCA Civ 74; [2013] WTLR 453 CA
- Mundil-Williams v Williams & ors [2021] EWHC 586 (Ch); WTLR(w) 2021-11
- Re Morris [1971] P. 62