Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

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JUDGMENT PARKER J: [1] This is an appeal brought by a claimant against a decision on quantum in an application under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 made by District Judge Million, as he then was, on 7 August 2007. The respondents, three charities, now seek to uphold his original award. [2] …

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Kevern v Ayres & anr [2014] EWHC 165 (Ch)

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Re Stolkin; Greaves v Stolkin [2013] EWHC 1140 (Ch)

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JUDGMENT NEWEY J: [1] Mr Leslie Stolkin (Leslie) died aged 75 on 24 September 2009. He left a will dated 3 December 2001 (the will). He had also, some seven weeks before his death, executed a codicil (the disputed codicil). This case concerns the validity of that document. The claimant, Mrs Pauline Greaves, asks the …

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Scarfe & anr v Matthews & ors Claim number: HC12C0096

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JUDGMENT Introduction [1] This is an application by the executors of the will of the late Mr Bernard Matthews for the determination by the court of an issue which has arisen in the administration of his estate. [2] As is said in the witness statement of the first-named executor, Mr Peter Scarfe, who knew him …

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Suggitt v Suggitt & anr [2012] EWCA Civ 1140

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JUDGMENT LADY JUSTICE ARDEN: [1] At the date of his death on 25 October 2009, Frank Edward Suggitt, whom I shall call Frank, owned some 400 acres of farmland in North Yorkshire and in addition, on or adjacent to that land, a number of houses called Wellfield, then occupied by his son John and his …

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Independent Trustee Services Ltd v GP Noble Trustees Ltd & ors [2012] EWCA Civ 195

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JUDGMENT LORD JUSTICE PATTEN Introduction [1] Each of the parties to this appeal is the victim of a fraud. Between August 2007 and April 2008 a total of some £52m was misappropriated from various occupational pension schemes by their UK corporate trustees, GP Noble Trustees Ltd (GPN) and BDC Trustees Ltd (BDC). Following a trial …

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Lane v Cullens Solicitors & ors [2011] EWCA Civ 547

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Judgment LORD JUSTICE LLOYD: [1] This appeal raises again the question when a cause of action in tort arose, being a claim in negligence against solicitors. His Honour Judge Mackie QC. sitting in the London Mercantile Court held that the claimant’s cause of action had arisen more than six years before the issue of the …

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Suggitt v Suggitt & anr [2011] EWHC 903 (Ch)

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JUDGMENT HHJ Roger Kaye QC: Introduction [1] There are before the court two claims relating to the estate of a Mr Frank Edward Suggitt (whom I shall refer to as ‘Frank’) who died on 25 October 2009: A claim commenced on 28 May 2010 by his son, Mr John Michael Suggitt (John), based on proprietary …

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Ilott v Mitson & ors [2014] EWHC 542 (Fam)

Kevern v Ayres & anr [2014] EWHC 165 (Ch)

Re Stolkin; Greaves v Stolkin [2013] EWHC 1140 (Ch)

Scarfe & anr v Matthews & ors Claim number: HC12C0096

Suggitt v Suggitt & anr [2012] EWCA Civ 1140

Independent Trustee Services Ltd v GP Noble Trustees Ltd & ors [2012] EWCA Civ 195

Lane v Cullens Solicitors & ors [2011] EWCA Civ 547

Suggitt v Suggitt & anr [2011] EWHC 903 (Ch)