Probate Law in UK Law

  • Marley v Rawlings and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 Febrero 2012
    ... ... 6 Mr Marley began proceedings in the Chancery Division for probate of the will which came before Proudman J. Her judgment records that the claim advanced before her was only for rectification of the will and probate ... ...
  • Gill v Woodall & Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Diciembre 2010
    ... ... of Mr James 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 ... ...
  • Perrins v Holland and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 Diciembre 2010
    ... ... The first two related to the grant of probate in solemn form, the third to certain of the orders as to costs ... 2 Permission to appeal on each of the three grounds was granted by ... ...
  • Randall v Randall
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Mayo 2016
    ... ... H brought a probate claim to challenge the validity of the will alleging that it was not duly executed in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the Wills Act ... ...
  • Marley v Rawlings and another
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 Enero 2014
    ... ... The procedural background ... 9 The appellant began probate proceedings, which came before Proudman J. She gave a judgment based on the understanding that his case was that Mr Rawlings's will ("the Will") ... ...
  • Roberts v Gill & Company and Another
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Mayo 2010
    ... ... 5 The executors named in the will (Mrs Roberts' solicitor and an accountant) renounced their right to probate and John Roberts was granted letters of administration with will annexed on February 16, 1996 ... 6 Mrs Roberts' will provided in clause 7 ... ...
  • Fuller v Strum
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 07 Diciembre 2001
    ... ... Jules Sher Q.C., sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court, on 20 December 2000 in a probate action. The judge pronounced for the force and validity of a Will only in respect of certain standard directions and one of five pecuniary legacies ... ...
  • Wintle v Nye
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Diciembre 1958
    ... ... Schedule to the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949": And it is further Ordered , That the Cause be, and the same is hereby, remitted back to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice with a Declaration, That the Will dated 4th August, 1937, of Kathleen Helen Wells is ... ...
  • Thynne v Thynne
    • Court of Appeal
    • 27 Julio 1955
    ... ... It is something for which provision is made by Order 70, rule 1. In Woolfenden v. Woolfenden ... 1948 Probate, page 27 , Mr. Justice Barnard d rew attention to the distinction between failure to observe the terms of the statute and non-observance of a rule ... ...
  • House of Spring Gardens Ltd v Waite
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Abril 1990
    ... ... 77 It is true that in Re Langton (1964) P. 163 , both Dankwerts and Diplock L.JJ. suggested that this rule was peculiar to the Probate Division, but this was not necessary for the decision in the case, and the Nana case was not cited. The rule may have originated in the special ... ...
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