Probate – Page 3 – Charles Cooper

Dunstan v. Ball [2024] EWHC 2105 (Ch)

Claims of undue influence, fraudulent calumny and want of knowledge are dismissed in a case where detailed attendance notes were ‘created by an employee of a reputable firm of solicitors against whom no allegations of fraud or mis-recording has been made’, despite the Will excluding one of two daughters: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/2105
Read more: Dunstan v. Ball [2024] EWHC 2105 (Ch)
Winter & Anor v. Winter [2024] EWCA Civ 699

Appeal dismissed. ‘Where… a claimant has made a life-changing choice and over many years undertaken work in reliance on an assurance, the Court will probably be prepared to treat loss of opportunity to lead a different life as itself detrimental’ in a claim for proprietary estoppel: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2024/699
Read more: Winter & Anor v. Winter [2024] EWCA Civ 699
Rahman v. Hassan & Ors [2024] EWHC 1290 (Ch)

Handing over ‘all the security devices, logins and passwords that were needed for accessing… bank and similar financial accounts’ and ‘the land certificate for the house and all the documents relating to the flats… satisfy the requirements for a donatio mortis causa of the contents of the bank accounts and the properties themselves, but not…
Read more: Rahman v. Hassan & Ors [2024] EWHC 1290 (Ch)

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