Davies v Morris [2018] WTLR 405

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2018 #172

The defendant in the present claim had brought a probate action in respect of the will of the deceased; the claimants in the present claim were defendants in the probate action. In the course of the probate action the judge made an order in a preliminary application for the determination of the deceased’s domicile at his death. It had been the present defendant’s position that the deceased had retained his domicile of origin in England and Wales, whereas the present claimants had argued that he had acquired a domicile of choice in Belgium, so that under Belgian law the will was void as a...