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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
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.
18 January 2023
Trust and Estate Disputes Quarterly Round-Up: Q4 2022
This quarterly contentious trust and probate litigation update provides a summary of a cross-section of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period October 2022 - December 2022.
17 January 2023
Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q4 2022
This quarterly civil fraud update provides a summary of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period October - December 2022.
11 January 2023
Has the privilege ship sailed for parties who attempt to mislead the court following Lakatamia Shipping Co authority?
The power to override privilege is an exceptional remedy, one that was used in the case of Lakatamia Shipping Co Ltd and others v Su and others [2022] EWHC 3115 (Comm), in which the court ordered the release to a claimant of correspondence between the defendant and his lawyers, applying the fraud or iniquity exception to legal professional privilege. This was a case of exceptional circumstances in which the defendant had carried out one of the most serious campaigns of contempt before the English courts.
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