Case: Re G (TJ) [2010] EWHC 3005 (COP), [2011] WTLR 231

TH v JH
 [2018] WTLR 693

The applicant, TH, the donee of an enduring power of attorney for the property and 
affairs of his father, HH, applied for retrospective approval of payments and gifts 
made between 2011 and 2017 in the sums of £88,366 in favour of the applicant and 
his family, and £15,196 in favour of his brother JH, the first respondent, and his family. 
JH opposed approval of all sums save for £30,000.


HH lacked capacity and was unable to participate in any meaningful way in 
decisions about his welfare or property or affairs. He required constant care from 
August 2010. TH provided sporadic ...

ADS v DSM & ors [2017] WTLR 819

JKS and her late husband had two sons, ADS and DSM. She brought proceedings against the former in August 2012 seeking relief in respect of (a) a transfer by her late husband to ADS of his parents’ matrimonial home (at which she and her late husband continued to live) and (b) a transfer by her late husband to ADS and his wife of a piece of land adjoining other property. Serious allegations were made by JKS, including allegations of undue influence by ADS. On the death of JKS’s husband a significant sum of inheritance tax was due in respect of the reservation of benefit in the matrimonial ...

Re Jones [2014] EWCOP 59

Mr Jones suffered from dementia and lacked testamentary capacity and capacity to make significant lifetime gifts. He had an estate of approximately £2.3m and was intestate. The effect of his dying intestate would be that, following the statutory legacy of £250,000 plus personal chattels to his wife, Mrs Jones, outright, Mrs Jones would receive half of the remainder of the estate absolutely and his daughter from a previous relationship, Ms Dawson, would receive the other half of the estate.

Ms Dawson’s mother and Mr Jones had separated when she was a child whereupon Ms Dawson...

Ross v A [2015] EWCOP 46

A, who was 18 years old, had received £5,000,000 in settlement of a claim for clinical negligence which had left her with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, cortical blindness, severe intellectual impairment and extreme behavioural problems. She lived at home with her parents and siblings. A professional with 25 years’ experience, David Ross of Simpson Millar, Solicitors, was appointed by the Court of Protection as deputy for her property and affairs. B, who was A’s brother, had not progressed at primary school as well as he could have during the build up to the trial in the High Cour...

NT v FS & ors [2013] EWHC 684 (CP)

F is a 74-year-old retired rugby player with assets of £3m and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and dementia in 2006. The applicant (NT), who is F’s deputy, brought this application for a statutory will to be executed on behalf of F and for a statutory gift of £50,000 to be made to F’s 95-year-old mother (T). The respondents were the potential beneficiaries of such will. The statutory gift was uncontroversial, however the statutory will provisions were contested. Judge Behrens, in determining what terms would be in F’s best interests, had regard to previous authorit...