Continue reading "Leonard & ors v Leonard & ors WTLR(w) 2024-04"
This content is only available to members.
Leonard & ors v Leonard & ors WTLR(w) 2024-04
WTLR Issue: Web Only
In the matter of: THE ESTATE OF DR JACK LAWRENCE LEONARD DECEASED (PROBATE)
1. JONATHAN HENRY LEONARD
2. ANDREW GORDON LEONARD
3. SARA ELIZABETH LEONARD
4. MEGAN LEONARD
V
1. MARGARET ROSE LEONARD (by her litigation friend Sharon Thompsett)
2. ZEDRA TRUST COMPANY (UK LIMITED)
3. MARK LESLIE SMITH
4. ELIZABETH LESLIE
5. CHARLOTTE DENISON
6. MICHAEL TURNER
7. MELISSA WARD
JUDGMENT MRS JUSTICE JOANNA SMITH: [1] In this case, the Claimants, Dr Jack Leonard’s children from his first marriage, invite the court to pronounce against a will signed by him at home in October 2015 (‘the 2015 Will’) without any professional supervision, and instead admit to probate an earlier will made in 2007 (‘the 2007 …
Cases Referenced
Cases in bold have further reading - click to view related articles.
- Banks v Goodfellow (1869-70) LR 5 QB 549
- Blackman & ors v Man [2007] EWHC 3162 (Ch); [2008] WTLR 389 ChD
- Carr & ors v Beaven & ors [2008] EWHC 2582 (Ch)
- Couwenbergh v Valkova [2008] EWHC 2451 (Ch); WTLR(w) 2008-20
- Cowderoy v Cranfield [2011] EWHC 1616 (Ch); [2011] WTLR 1699 ChD
- Edkins v Hopkins & ors [2016] EWHC 2542 (Ch); [2017] WTLR 39 ChD
- Fuller v Strum [2001] EWCA Civ 1879; [2002] WTLR 199 CA
- Gardiner v Tabet & anor [2021] EWHC 563 (Ch); [2020] WTLR 931 ChD
- Gestmin SGPS SA v Credit Suisse (UK) Ltd & anr [2013] EWHC 3560 (Comm)
- Gill v Woodall & ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1430; [2011] WTLR 251 CA
- Harwood v Baker (1840) 3 Moo PC 282
- Hawes v Burgess & anr [2013] EWCA Civ 74; [2013] WTLR 453 CA
- Hoff & ors v Atherton [2004] EWCA Civ 1554; [2005] WTLR 99 CA
- Hughes v Pritchard & ors [2022] EWCA Civ 386; [2022] WTLR 993 CA
- In re Crerar (1956) 106 LJ 694
- Key & anr v Key & ors [2010] EWHC 408 (Ch); [2010] WTLR 623 ChD
- Kostic v Chaplin [2007] EWHC 2909 (Ch); [2007] EWHC 2298 (Ch); [2008] WTLR 655
- Martin & anor v Kogan & ors [2017] EWHC 2927 (IPEC)
- Minns v Foster (2002) unreported, Ch, 13 December
- Mundil-Williams v Williams & ors [2021] EWHC 586 (Ch); WTLR(w) 2021-11
- Parker v Felgate (1883) 8 PD 171
- Perrins v Holland & ors [2010] EWCA Civ 840; [2010] WTLR 1415 CA
- Re Clitheroe [2021] EWHC 1102 (Ch); [2021] WTLR 449 ChD
- Reeves v Drew [2022] EWHC 159 (Ch); WTLR(w)-2022-08
- Schrader v Schrader [2013] EWHC 466 (Ch); [2013] WTLR 701 ChD
- Sharp & anr v Adams & ors [2006] EWCA Civ 449; [2006] WTLR 1059 CA
- Simon v Byford & ors [2014] EWCA Civ 280; [2014] WTLR 1097 CA
- Todd v Parsons & ors [2019] EWHC 3366 (Ch); [2020] WTLR 305 ChD
- Wharton v Bancroft & ors [2011] EWHC 3250 (Ch); [2012] WTLR 693 ChD
- Wrangle v Brunt & anr [2021] EWHC 368 (Ch); [2021] WTLR 1143 ChD
- Zorbas v Sidiropoulous (No 2) [2009] NSWCA 197
Legislation Referenced
- Civil Evidence Act 1995, ss2(1)(a), 4(1) and 4(2)
- CPR 32.19
- Mental Health Act 1983, s12(2)