Category: Probate

  • Bains v. Arsalan [2026] EWHC 1597

    Bains v. Arsalan [2026] EWHC 1597

    In a dispute over funeral arrangements, where the deceased’s mother had been convicted of her murder, the Forfeiture Act 1982 is applied so that the mother ‘is not entitled to apply for, or receive, a grant of administration under Rule 22 of the NCPR’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2026/1597

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  • Tucker v. Howe [2026] EWHC 208 (SCCO)

    Tucker v. Howe [2026] EWHC 208 (SCCO)

    Where beneficiaries initiated and pursued assessment of a professional executors costs under s.71(3) Solicitors Act 1974, billed at £147,436.33, and took a ‘belligerent approach in characterising a generally unremarkable body of costs as extraordinary in amount’, the Court finds ‘it is fair for the Claimants to bear the costs of these detailed assessment proceedings’ assessed…

    Read more: Tucker v. Howe [2026] EWHC 208 (SCCO)
  • Grijns v. Grijns [2025] EWHC 2853 (Ch)

    Grijns v. Grijns [2025] EWHC 2853 (Ch)

    In a proprietary estoppel case where the successful party was ‘said to have been unreasonable in their approach to mediation’, the Court finds ‘There can be no quarrel with the idea that parties, in litigation, should make reasonable efforts to settle… That, however, does not compel, or require, a litigant, confronted by a wholly unreasonable…

    Read more: Grijns v. Grijns [2025] EWHC 2853 (Ch)