Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2022 #187Mr Bracey passed away on 27 May 2018, leaving a will dated 31 July 2015. Under that will, Mr Bracey appointed the second defendant as his executrix and trustee. The grant of probate issued on 16 March 2020 to the second defendant. Mr Bracey had been predeceased by his wife, who, like Mr Bracey himself, had been unwell at the time at which Mr Bracey had executed his will. The case related to a dispute between Mr Bracey’s son (the claimant) and his daughter (the first defendant) concerning the proper construction of the will and whether it should be rectified.
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Clarke v Brothwood [2007] indicates the circumstances in which ‘clerical error’ allows rectification. Siân Hodgson reports ‘Rectification may be possible under s20, but the court will need to see evidence as to the nature of the error, how it arose and what the testator’s true intentions were.’ Until 1983 there was no power to rectify …
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Austin v Woodward clarifies the limits of ‘clerical error’ as a ground for rectification, as Michael O’Sullivan explains ‘Many cases of rectification are effectively uncontested because the solicitor draftsman and their insurers have an interest in the application succeeding.’ The case of Austin v Woodward & anor [2011] concerned an application for rectification of a …
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