Otitoju v Onwordi [2024] WTLR 655

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2024 #195

Two applications had been made concerning the funeral arrangements of the deceased. In the first application, the claimant (one of the deceased’s children who had the support of her siblings and her mother) applied for an order that she be entitled to possession of the deceased’s body and to make arrangements for its disposal, and for a limited grant of letters of administration (on the basis that the deceased died intestate) under the Senior Courts Act 1981 and an interim injunction restraining the defendant (the deceased’s former partner) from taking possession of the deceased...

Blades v Isaac [2016] EWHC 601 (Ch)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | May 2016 #159

The claimant was a member of a class of objects of a discretionary trust created by the will of Valerie Mary Lee who died on 19 June 2013. The defendants, who were partners in Tanners Solicitors LLP, were the trustees (including the sole proving executor). The relationship between the claimant and her elder sister (who had been added to the class of potential beneficiaries after the death of their mother) was affected by a history of strains between members of the family. The first defendant proved the will on 28 January 2014 in relation to an estate valued at £903,574. The second defend...