Ali v Taj [2020] WTLR 391

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2020 #179

The respondents were the residuary beneficiaries of the estate of Mohammed Taj; the appellant was the deceased’s younger brother and one of his two executors. The deceased died on 1 September 2007, and probate was granted on 7 May 2008 to the appellant and his co-executor. Various issues arose in the course of administering the estate, and in the eleven years following the grant the executors had not provided an inventory of the estate’s assets nor an account of their administration.

The respondents issued a summons for the executors to exhibit on oath an inventory and account of ...