Trusts and Estates

Following a three-week trial with live evidence from 49 witnesses and a total of 100 witness statements, Mr Justice Michael Green found a will made by “the toughest, hardest man in business that you were ever likely to meet” invalid for..

The basic facts of Chandler v Lombardi [2022] EWHC 22 (Ch) will not sound unusual to Court of Protection practitioners. In brief, P’s attorney for property and affairs improperly transferred a share of P’s house into her own name. The..

In January 1928, an anonymous donor gifted £500,000 – the equivalent of around £33.5 million today, according to www.officialdata.org – on trust. The trustees were to hold the fund until it had grown sufficiently to pay off the..