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What tech businesses need to know in 2026
Christopher Perrin
7 June 2023
Dealing with bodies after death – are there any limits? PeTA founder’s unusual body part bequests
When a person dies their personal representative (“PR”) is entitled to take possession of the body for the purpose of carrying out their duty as a PR to lawfully and properly dispose of the body.
22 March 2023
The Leonard Cohen forged trust lawsuit – The lessons
Trust and estate disputes are increasingly commonplace, especially in the HNW community where there are complicated family relationships in play and/or the relationship between trustees or trustees and beneficiaries has broken down.
23 February 2023
The clearest possible case for an Inheritance Act claim by a surviving spouse
In a case decision ironically handed down in the wake of Valentine’s Day last week, a widow who was left nothing in her husband’s will following a 66-year marriage, was successful in pressing for her fair share of his estate.
20 February 2023
Disputing a will on the basis of undue influence
Another day, another will dispute in the headlines. The case concerns the estate of the late Julie Harrison whose daughter, Candice Harrison, is reported to have been successful in an undue claim against her cousin, Jonathan Greenwood.
10 February 2023
Contesting a will if fraud, theft or forgery is involved
It has been widely reported in the mainstream media this week that a Mr Stewart Pearman has been jailed for over five years for trying to steal more than £2 million left by a friend to an air ambulance charity before her death by cancer in 2016. Mr Pearman had been bequeathed £25,000 by his friend in her Will made in 2014 but shortly before her death forged a document that declared he was the sole executor and main beneficiary of her estate.
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