CL v Swansea Bay University Health Board & ors [2024] WTLR 813
Autumn 2024 #196Mrs Justice Theis DBE was concerned with the appeal by CL (the appellant) from the order of HHJ Porter-Bryant dated 6 December 2023 (Swansea Bay University Health Board v P [2023]) which discharged a previous order appointing the appellant as LL’s deputy for personal welfare. The appellant was LL’s mother. The respondents to the appeal were the Swansea Bay University Health Board (the first respondent), LL by his litigation friend AB (the second respondent), LL’s father (the third respondent) and Swansea City Council (the fourth respondent). The fourth respondent took no active ...
Dignam-Thomas & anr v McCourt & anr [2024] WTLR 105
Spring 2024 #194The claimant sisters (aged 61 and 68) applied under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 for provision out of the estate of their late father. The sole asset in the estate was the deceased’s home in which his son and sole beneficiary of his will, the second defendant (aged 72), continued to reside. The second defendant did not engage with the proceedings despite repeated service of court orders and correspondence, and concerns were raised as to his capacity to litigate. Trials were twice adjourned for capacity assessments to be undertaken, but the secon...