Charles Cooper | Barrister

In a case where the ‘golden rule’ was not observed, and it was presumed that the appointment of Solicitor executors would be ‘abused… through improper charging’, the evidence of the Solicitor executor as to mental capacity was considered to carry ‘all the weight which the Court of Appeal in Hughes v Pritchard, at [79], contemplated it might do’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2025/2438