Wills & Trusts Law Reports | May 2012 #119Alfred Thomas Rawlings (H) and Maureen Catherine Rawlings (W) were husband and wife who, on 17 May 1999, signed mirror wills leaving their entire estate to each other or, if the other failed to survive, to the appellant who was treated as their son. The respondents, who were their natural sons, were excluded but stood to benefit on intestacy if the wills were invalid. In the event, by mistake H signed W’s will and W signed H’s will but the error was not noticed then, or on the death of W. It was only noticed after the death of H in August 2006 when a dispute arose as to whether the estat...
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Marley v Rawlings was the correct one, as Alexander Learmonth reports ‘The existing cases on s20 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 have already taken rectification about as far as it should go; and there is no scope for using the section to correct other sorts of errors, …
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