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Succession: Consider what is just
Mark Pawlowski explains the court’s power to relieve an unlawful killer from forfeiture of their victim’s estate ‘The Forfeiture Act 1982 empowers the court to grant relief to a person who has unlawfully killed another and who is precluded, under the forfeiture rule, from acquiring a benefit in consequence of the killing.’ The common law …
Cases Referenced
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- Chadwick v Collinson & ors [2014] EWHC 3055 (Ch); [2015] WTLR 25 ChD
- Cleaver v Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association [1892] 1 QB 147
- Dalton v Latham [2003] EWHC 796; [2003] WTLR 687
- Dunbar v Plant [1997] EWCA Civ 2167
- Gray v Barr [1970] 2 QB 626; [1971] 2 QB 554
- In the Estate of Crippen deceased [1911] P 108
- In the Estate of Hall deceased [1914] P 1
- Land v Land [2006] WTLR 1447
- R v National Insurance Commissioner ex parte Connor [1981] 1 All ER 769
- Re Callaway; Callaway v Treasury Solicitor [1956] 1 Ch 559
- Re H Deceased [1990] 1 FLR 441
- Re K Deceased [1985] Ch 85
- Re Royse [1985] 1 Ch 22
- Re S Deceased [1996] 1 WLR 235