will in UK Law

  • White and Another v Jones and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1995
    ... ... 9 In this appeal, your Lordships' House has to consider for the first time the much discussed question whether an intended beneficiary under a will is entitled to recover damages from the testator's solicitors by reason of whose negligence the testator's intention to benefit him under the will ... ...
  • Gillett v Holt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 March 2000
    ... ... 17 Then after some explanation of the college policy it went on, "With regard to Limes Farm, I hope that you will remain our tenant for a great number of years. If your tenancy did end, then the College would have to decide whether to sell or re-let, as I am sure ... ...
  • Lewis (as Executrix of the Estate of Blackwell (Deceased)) v Warner
    • Chancery Division
    • 18 July 2016
  • Michael Paul Goodman and Another (Appellants/Claimants) v Mina Goodman and Another (Respondents/Defendants)
    • Chancery Division
    • 18 January 2013
    ... ... Act 1985, which contains a power to replace or remove personal representatives, applies in relation to a person named as an executor in a will but who has not been granted probate ... 2 The case concerns the estate of Mr Everard Goodman, who died on 17 April ... ...
  • Pitt and Another v Holt and Another Futter and Another v Futter and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 09 May 2013
    ... ... But I will say at once that I take a different view of the disposal of the appeal in Pitt on the mistake issue ... 6 Before any ... ...
  • Theodossiades v Smith and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 09 June 2015
    ... ... 2 This is an appeal by charities who are entitled to inherit under a will against a decision that (a) the deceased transferred her house to her nephew by a donatio mortis causa , alternatively (b) the nephew is entitled to ... ...
  • Marley v Rawlings and another
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 January 2014
    ... ... 1 A husband and wife each executed the will which had been prepared for the other owing to an oversight on the part of their solicitor; the question which arises is whether the will of the ... ...
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Trustees of Sir John Aird's Settlement
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 July 1983
    ... ... 14 Thus, on the face of it, all that you have to do if you want to avoid the liability which will otherwise arise under subparagraph 6 (2)—and that will normally arise on an appointment by trustees of a discretionary trust—is so to appoint ... ...
  • James v Williams
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 March 1999
    ... ... THE PRESIDENT ... 1 I will ask Aldous LJ to give the first judgment. LORD JUSTICE ALDOUS ... 2 The plaintiff, Mrs Mary James, appeals against the ... ...
  • Gill v Woodall & Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 December 2010
    ... ... Allen QC, sitting in the Leeds District Registry as a Deputy High Court Judge of the Chancery Division, revoking the grant of probate of the will of Joyce Gill (“Mrs Gill”), dated 27 April 1993. An initial summary of the facts ... ...
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