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Wills: At your disposal?
John Dickinson and Natasha Dzameh look at the circumstances in which a disposition to an executor constitutes an absolute gift ‘Mr Justice Newey therefore concluded that the will constituted an absolute gift to the executor and there was no impermissible delegation of the deceased’s testamentary powers.’ Practitioners contending with wills and probate matters are fully …
Cases Referenced
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- Amiee Shannon Steed (a Child by her litigation friend, Marilyn Joy Winn) v Christopher John Steed (2016) unreported, Newey J, Chancery Division of the Bristol District Registry, 17 March
- Chichester Diocesan Board of Finance v Simpson [1944] UKHL 2
- Daniels v Daniels Estate [1992] 2 WWR 697 Alb CA (Canadian case – Court of Appeal of Alberta)
- Gibbs v Rumsey (1813) 2 Vesey & Beames 294
- Lambe v Eames (1871) LR 6 Ch App 597
- Marilyn Joy Winn) v Christopher John Steed (2016) unreported
- Marley v Rawlings [2011] WTLR 595 ChD; [2012] WTLR 639 CA; [2014] WTLR 299 SC; [2014] WTLR 1511 SC (costs)
- Paice v Archbishop of Canterbury (1807) 14 Ves Jun 364
- Re Beatty [1990] 1 WLR 1503
- Re Harrison (1885) 30 Ch D 390
- Re Howell [1914] 2 Ch 73
- Re Howell [1915] 1 Ch 241
- Re Messenger's Estate [1937] 1 All ER 355
- Re Pugh's Will Trusts [1967] 1 WLR 1262