Wills & Trusts Law Reports | March 2014 #137Mr Alfred Rawlings and his wife Maureen Rawlings instructed a solicitor to draft their wills in mirror form. Each spouse intended to leave his or her entire estate to the survivor of them, but provided that, should the other have predeceased or survived them for less than a month, their estates should be left to the appellant, who was not related to them but whom they treated as their son. Mr and Mrs Rawlings’ solicitor attended them on 17 May 1999 to enable a due execution of draft wills containing these provisions. By an oversight, their solicitor gave each spouse the other’s draft wil...
Paul Pinder examines a Court of Appeal decision on the interpretation of documents held by the Land Registry ‘The publicly available documents held by the Land Registry therefore omitted to state what was owed and did not refer to the extended power of sale.’ In the recent case of Cherry Tree Investments Ltd v Landmain …
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