Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2017 #168Patricia Deeley (Miss Deeley) lived with her unmarried partner, Peter Harding (Mr Harding) in his flat at 87 Beckenham Lane, Bromley (the property) from 1962 to 2008. When Mr Harding died on 11 August 2008, it was believed (incorrectly) that he had not left a will and, therefore, the intestacy rules regulated the succession to his estate. Letters of Administration were granted to one of Mr Harding’s cousins, Maurice John Littlewood (Mr Littlewood) on 2 March 2010. An action brought by Miss Deeley under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (the...
Sascha Hindmarch outlines the pursuit of Libor-related claims ‘Graiseley’s importance lies in the window it provides claimants to pursue financial institutions for Libor-related infringements by pleading implied representations as a head.’ The Court of Appeal’s decision at the end of last year in Graiseley Properties Ltd v Barclays Bank plc [2013] (appeal decision) confirmed that …
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Andrew Taggart and Sarah Hitchins consider the circumstances in which employees of varying seniority may be obliged to reveal their own wrongdoing ‘When considering whether an employee owed a duty to disclose their own wrongdoing, a court is likely to look at their terms and conditions of employment. Some employees (even those who do not …
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