Mutual Wills

In the July issue of Trusts & Estates, there was a discussion of the doctrine of mutual Wills, following the release of the Law Commission’s Consultation on “Making a Will”. The Law Commission has recommended the doctrine under which, when two testators so agree, after one has died leaving a Will in the agreed form, the survivor will effectively be unable to alter his Will. Now, a mutual Wills case has shed some interesting new light on the doctrine in Legg v Burton [2017] EWHC 2088 Ch.