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Testamentary Capacity: Banking on Banks v Goodfellow
Walker v Badmin has clarified the correct test for testamentary capacity. Araba Taylor explains ‘The clarity offered by the Walker judgment is very welcome, given the conflict between earlier first instance decisions and what the judge described as the “rather ambivalent view” in the textbooks.’ It is now settled: the test for testamentary capacity in …
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- Banks v Goodfellow (1869-70) LR 5 QB 549
- Bray v Pearce (2014) unreported High Court M H Rosen QC 6 March
- Fischer v Diffley [2013] EWHC 4567 (Ch); [2014] WTLR 757
- Fuller v Strum [2001] EWCA Civ 1879; [2002] WTLR 199 CA
- IM v LM [2014] EWCA Civ 37
- Key & anor v Key & ors [2010] EWHC 408 (Ch); [2010] WTLR 623 ChD
- Local Authority X v MM [2007] EWHC 2003 (Fam)
- Re Beaney [1978] 1 WLR 770
- Re MB (Medical Treatment) [1997] EWCA Civ 3093
- Re Smith; Kicks v Leigh (Deceased) [2014] EWHC 3926 (Ch); [2015] WTLR 579
- Ryan v Public Trustee [2000] 1 NZLR 700
- Scammell v Farmer [2008] EWHC 1100 (Ch); [2008] WTLR 1261
- Simon v Byford & ors [2014] EWCA Civ 280; [2014] WTLR 1097 CA
- Sutton v Sutton [2010] WTLR 115
- Tchilingirian v Ouzounian [2003] WTLR 709
- Tociapski v Tociapski [2013] WTLR 1821
- Walker v Badmin [2014] EWHC 71 (Ch); [2015] WTLR 493