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Wills: A risky business
Laura Abbott sets out what needs to be considered when challenging the validity of a will prepared by a professional ‘The court will require the strongest of evidence to find a will to be invalid and it is extremely difficult to succeed where the medical records and solicitors’ evidence are all supportive of validity.’ As …
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- Banks v Goodfellow (1869-70) LR 5 QB 549
- Barnaby v Johnson [2020] WTLR 67
- Edwards v Edwards & ors [2007] EWHC 1119 (Ch); [2007] WTLR 1387 ChD
- Gill v Woodall & ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1430; [2011] WTLR 251 CA
- Hawes v Burgess & anor [2013] EWCA Civ 74; [2013] WTLR 453 CA
- James v James & ors [2018] WTLR 1313
- Rea v Rea & ors [2019] EWHC 2434 (Ch); [2019] WTLR 1231 ChD
- Sherrington & ors v Sherrington [2005] EWCA Civ 326; [2005] WTLR 587 CA
- Wright v Rogers (1869) LR 1 PD 678