Laura Abbott provides a refresher on the procedure to follow in the case of a missing person, with reference to the most up-to-date case law While it will not be an ‘everyday’ case for practitioners, around 250,000 people go missing in England and Wales every year, so unless and until they are found families may …
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Autumn 2017 #169This was an application for a declaration under the Presumption of Death Act 2013 in respect of a man (‘E’) who had disappeared on 17 November 2005 and had not been heard of since.
The claimant and his family came from South Africa to England in 1980. E was the claimant’s son. E was born in South Africa and was 15 when he arrived in England. He had difficulty adapting to life in England, but finished formal education and entered employment. From late 1998 he suffered panic attacks at work. He developed depression and resigned in October 1999. He lived in a flat a...
