The High Court has ruled in favour of a farmer’s daughter who brought a proprietary estoppel claim against her mother. This case illustrates how useful the doctrine of proprietary estoppel can be where inheritance disputes arise, especially in farming families.
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The new Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act.
We review an important court decision on how to interpret a badly worded Will.
The making of a gift, and in particular a gift of land, involves the parties complying with a number of legal principles. If the legal requirements are not followed then the gift could be invalid.
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Lack of testamentary capacity: Contentious probate lawyer, Naomi Ireson, reports on the High Court ruling in the case of Walker v Badmin that the correct test for determining testamentary capacity for making a will is the one originally set out in the Victorian case of Banks v Goodfellow and not the test referred to in the Mental Capacity Act 2005.