Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2015 #151The claimant (K) and second defendant (A) are brother and sister. They are the children of George Kousouros (D) who died in Cyprus in March 2007 leaving a large house in Islington (the property) where he had lived with K prior to returning to Cyprus in 2000 and which also provided a rental income. According to K, who still lives there and takes the rental income, D transferred the property to him in 2001 on terms which included a payment to A of £50,000 and pursuant on the oral terms his parents executed a deed of transfer of the registered title to the property in form TR1 which A was a...
The risks of acting for executor and beneficiary are clear in Kousouros v O’Halloran & Aresti [2014]. Gerald Wilson explains ‘Legal advice privilege is not to be weighed against any other public interest, whether that is in establishing the truth or the proper supervision of estates.’When you act for a beneficiary under a will, what …
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