Wills & Trusts Law Reports | June 2012 #120Vera Gwendoline Spear (the testator) died on 5 January 2007 leaving a will dated 29 August 1997 (the will). Apart from a specific bequest of the testator’s pet parrot the will left the entirety of the testator’s estate on trust to her executors to be divided in equal shares between the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals, Monkey World Ltd and ‘the Owl Sanctuary Crow Ringwood Hampshire’. The value of the deceased’s residuary estate was approximately £260,000. The claimant was the testator’s sole executor an...
Penelope Reed QC introduces an issue devoted to articles by the barristers of 5 Stone Buildings The members of 5 Stone Buildings are delighted to be back writing for this edition of the Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal. Last year proved to be a fertile source of articles with members of chambers involved …
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The case of Kings v Bultitude has lessons for the failure of a residuary gift as well as casting light on a colourful part of church history, as Barbara Rich finds out In early January 2008, Mrs Pamela Schroder died and left the residue of her estate:To the person who… shall be or act as …
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