Rokkan v Rokkan & anr WTLR(w) 2021-10

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Conflicts of law: Observing the orthodoxy

Richard Dew explores a case which concerns Norwegian law, the question of domicile and the principles of ademption The claimant needed to persuade the court to characterise the issue before it not as one of the division of the estate of Elizabeth but as something else, to which the English court could apply Norwegian law. …
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Ademption: Common sense prevails

Christopher McNall sets out the lessons from a rare case of ademption ‘Ademption is a process whereby specific testamentary gifts fail because the subject matter of the gift has ceased to be part of the testatrix‘s property at the time of their death.‘ The decision of Norris J, sitting in Manchester as the Vice-Chancellor of …
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