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Fraudulent calumny: Setting aside wills obtained by lies
Ken To and Catherine Hau explore the success of challenges to wills based on fraudulent calumny in recent English jurisprudence It was not necessary for the party seeking to establish fraudulent calumny to prove that it was the only cause of the change in the testator’s intentions as to his or her testamentary dispositions. It …
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- Allen v M’Pherson (1847) 1 HL Cas 191
- Boyse v Rossborough [1857] 6 HLC 2
- Christodoulides v Marcou [2017] EWHC 2632 (Ch); [2020] WTLR 883 ChD
- Clitheroe v Bond [2020] EWHC 1185 (Ch)
- Edwards v Edwards & ors [2007] EWHC 1119 (Ch); [2007] WTLR 1387 ChD
- Kunicki & anor v Hayward [2016] EWHC 3199 (Ch)
- Morris v Fuirer & ors [2021] EWHC 3566 (Ch); [2022] WTLR 659 ChD
- Nesbitt v Nicholson & ors (Re Boyes) [2013] EWHC 4027 (Ch); [2020] WTLR 793 ChD
- Re Clitheroe [2021] EWHC 1102 (Ch); [2021] WTLR 449 ChD
- Rea v Rea & ors [2019] EWHC 2434 (Ch); [2019] WTLR 1231 ChD
- St Clair v King & anr [2022] EWHC 40 (Ch); [2022] WTLR 703 ChD
- Todd v Parsons & ors [2019] EWHC 3366 (Ch); [2020] WTLR 305 ChD
- Whittle v Whittle & anr [2022] EWHC 925 (Ch); [2022] WTLR 1153 ChD