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Wills: Can an unsent text message be a valid will?
Sheila Rusike and Jo Summers examine worldwide precedents for accepting unconventional wills ‘The fact that the text message was unsent only demonstrated that the deceased wanted it to be found after his death and not before, further supporting the argument that he wanted it to express his final wishes.’ The Law Commission’s recent consultation paper, …
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- Banks v Goodfellow (1869-70) LR 5 QB 549
- Lindsay v McGrath [2015] QCA 206
- Marley v Rawlings [2011] WTLR 595 ChD; [2012] WTLR 639 CA; [2014] WTLR 299 SC; [2014] WTLR 1511 SC (costs)
- Mellino v Wnuk & ors [2013] QSC 336
- Re Nichol; Nichol v Nichol [2017] QSC 220
- Re Yu [2013] QSC 322
- Sadleir v Kähler & ors [2018] QSC 67