Lines v Wilcox & ors [2019] WTLR 927
Autumn 2019 #176The claimant was the administrator of the estate of Nancy Elizabeth Brock (deceased) who executed a ‘homemade’ will on 22 April 2005. The first defendant was appointed as executrix. The first, third, fourth and fifth defendants were the adult children of the deceased to whom she had bequeathed ‘all the money’ immediately following a reference to the price of £100,000 to be paid for the deceased’s house at 6 Mildfield Estate, Pontypool which she had agreed to sell to the first defendant and her husband, the second defendant. In the event, the defendant later transferred the house to the f...
Vucicevic & anr v Aleksic & ors [2018] WTLR 1545
Winter 2018 #170The claim was a claim dated 5 September 2016 by the claimants as personal representatives of the late Mr Veliko Aleksic (the deceased), who died on 24 October 2014, for construction of parts of the deceased’s last will. He acquired a house in London in 1960 and a house in Cardiff in 1971.
He left a holographic will, which was undated save for bearing the year ‘2012’. It was signed but there was no attestation clause. It did not provide for the appointment of an executor. The deceased’s estate was valued at £2,750,753, including three houses, one in Montenegro, one in Cardiff, and ...
Greathead v Greathead [2017] WTLR 939
Autumn 2017 #169This was an application for a declaration under the Presumption of Death Act 2013 in respect of a man (‘E’) who had disappeared on 17 November 2005 and had not been heard of since.
The claimant and his family came from South Africa to England in 1980. E was the claimant’s son. E was born in South Africa and was 15 when he arrived in England. He had difficulty adapting to life in England, but finished formal education and entered employment. From late 1998 he suffered panic attacks at work. He developed depression and resigned in October 1999. He lived in a flat a...