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Wills: Trial and error
Alexander Learmonth QC and James McKean report on a case on construction and rectification If the will does not accord with the deceased’s intentions, the wrong is irreversible. Correcting that wrong must be more important than classifying how it came about. There is a will, a company, and two beneficiaries. The will gives 26% of …
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- Bell v Georgiou & anr [2002] EWHC 1080 (Ch); [2002] WTLR 1105 ChD
- Boyes v Cook (1880) 14 ChD 53
- Eade v Hogg & ors [2021] EWHC 1057; [2021] WTLR 507 ChD
- Guthrie v Morel & ors [2015] EWHC 3172 (Ch); [2016] WTLR 273 ChD
- Marley v Rawlings [2011] WTLR 595 ChD; [2012] WTLR 639 CA; [2014] WTLR 299 SC; [2014] WTLR 1511 SC (costs)
- Re Segelman [1996] Ch 171