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Wills: Has the golden rule lost its lustre?
Charles Holbech reviews the importance of a medical opinion for the aged or infirm testator ‘Even though the golden rule may not, on close examination, be a golden rule, it does not follow that solicitors would be to safe to disregard it: they should be aware of the risk of a negligence claim should they …
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- Banks v Goodfellow (1869-70) LR 5 QB 549
- Buckenham v Dickinson [2000] WTLR 1083
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- Re Simpson (1977) 121 SJ 224
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- Wharton v Bancroft & ors [2011] WTLR 693
- White v Jones [1995] 2 UKHL 5
- Worby v Rosser [2000] PNLR 140