Pead v Prostate Cancer UK & ors [2024] WTLR 667

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2024 #195

The claimant applied for a non-party costs order against GWCA Solicitors Ltd (GWCA), which had been joined as the ninth defendant. The application arose out of a claim for the rectification of the will of James Murray McKay deceased (the deceased) or, in the alternative, for a declaration as to the true construction of clause 11 of the will. The will, which had been drafted by a predecessor practice to GWCA, made provision in clause 11 for the division of the deceased’s residuary estate between ‘such of the beneficiaries named in clauses 4.1 to 4.8 inclusive absolutely as shall survive m...