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 …

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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