Petition by Vindex Trustees Ltd [2021] WTLR 1437

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2021 #185

The will and codicils of the late Estelle Brownrigg contained a gift of a portion of the residue of her estate to a charity named as the ‘Nelson Mandela Educational Fund, South Africa’. Despite an extensive search, nothing could be found to suggest that any charity with that name had ever existed. The sole executor of her estate petitioned for directions from the court as to whether the petitioner as executor could distribute a portion of the deceased’s residual estate to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, on the basis that the fact that no charity with the specified name had ever exist...