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Wills: Crossing a line
Brendan Cotter considers how likely a claim against a testamentary predator is to succeed ‘The classic sign of undue influence is the main beneficiary being active in the preparation of a will in which they take a substantial benefit.’As Hilaire Belloc wrote in Dedicatory Ode 1910: ‘The question’s very much too wide, and much too …
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- Parker v Duncan (1890) 62 LT 642
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- R v Exall [1866] 4 F & F 922
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- Re Simpson (1977) 121 SJ 224
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- Re Ticehurst (1973) The Times, 6 March
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- Rogers v Rogers [2008] ZWSC 7
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- Shuck v Loveridge [2005] EWHC 72 (Ch)
- Tyrrell v Painton [1894] P 151
- Vout v Hay [1995] 2 SLR 876
- Wingrove v Wingrove (1885) 11 PD 81
- Worby v Rosser [1999] EWCA Civ 1520