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Wills, probate and the administration of estates, trusts and trustees, the Court of Protection and mental capacity, and charities.
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SM is an adult woman born in 1997 with diagnoses of severe learning disability, catatonia, major depression and autism. She lives in a supported living placement — a single occupancy bungalow — with a care package commissioned by…
The applicant, the City Doctoral Researchers Association, complained to the Charity Commission of England and Wales about the conduct of three charities towards its members: the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher…
T, now aged 25, was adopted at the age of three after suffering severe neglect by his birth parents. He has autism, a speech and language disorder, ADHD and personality disorder, suffers from severe anxiety, self-harms, and has…
Caroline Brown died on 1 September 2021, leaving an estate of about £15,000,000 to her four children in equal shares. Significant tax liabilities were known from the outset, but proved greater than anticipated and are currently…
The Court of Protection heard seven applications together. Each was brought by a professional property and affairs deputy, drawn from four solicitors' firms, acting for one of AH, SF, MCL, HI, EL, TF and RF. Each of them had…
The claimants are Mrs Loudmila Bourlakova, her daughter Veronica Bourlakova and two companies. They issued these proceedings on 16 July 2020. They allege that after the marriage broke down, Mr Oleg Bourlakov, acting with the…
The claimant, KDS, is a 26-year-old man who was injured in a road traffic accident on the M6 motorway on 19 November 2022. The head-on collision killed the daughter of the claimant's partner and the defendant driver also died…
Margaret Ofori-Kuma was born on 16 April 1966 and died suddenly on 9 June 2026, leaving three adult daughters, Michaela Fordjor, Karyn Ofori and Delores Ofori. Her death was unanticipated and she left no will or written funeral…
The Properties in question are 2 Hawarden Avenue, Wallasey and 6 Knaresborough Road, Wallasey, registered since 1997 and 2005 respectively in the joint names of twin brothers Nicholas James Coombes and Andrew Kenneth Coombes. 2…
The Free Church of England ("FCE") is a nonconformist denomination founded in the mid-nineteenth century out of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, constituted by a deed poll and declaration of trust dated 31 August 1863…
Mrs Jessbir Kaur bought a residential property in London in or about March 1991. Legal title was transferred to her husband, Prem Singh Potiwal, in 2000, then to her daughter, Paranjeet Kaur, in 2006, and finally in 2008 to her…
AR is a 25-year-old man with a moderate to severe learning disability and autistic spectrum disorder who lived for most of his life with his parents, PR and QR. Since May 2025 he has lived in a supported living placement…
The Third Defendant, then called Pride Planning Ltd, sold funeral plans. Customers paid not the company but the Pride Planning Trust, of which they became beneficiaries; Pride Planning could appoint the trustees. When the…
ST is a 98-year-old woman who has lived all her life in South Wales, a devout Roman Catholic and, until her admission, living relatively independently at home with the support of her son MB. On 16 December 2025 she was admitted…
Constantia James died on 26 February 2023, leaving a will dated 15 July 1994. Clause 9 gave her residuary estate on trust for her two sons, Mark Anthony James and Jonathan Sylvester James, "as shall survive me and attain the age…
Anne Shirley Langley died on 1 May 2024. Two of her three children brought a probate claim in which they seek to propound an apparent will dated 27 August 2020, of which the first claimant, the second defendant (a longstanding…
The appellant, Grand Smile Design Limited, is a Surrey dental practice whose directors are Dr Thomas Keppel and his wife Dr Priyangika Suaris. In 2014 and 2015 both participated in the Qubic Gold Bullion Scheme, a disguised…
FHR is a 28 year old British Muslim man, born in December 1997, who worked as a mechanic and was close to his mother FN, his father FZR and his sister FRR. On 29 January 2020 he attempted to hang himself and sustained a severe…
The claimant, Bernadette Rogers, sued her brother, the defendant Andrew Wills, in his capacity as executor of the estate of their late mother Ursula Wills — known within the family as Sheila — to recover £135,000 in contract and…
The claimant, Julie Marie Croll, and the second and third defendants, Jacqueline Mary Cullis and Peter Dennis Thorpe, are siblings and the adult children of Arthur Dennis Thorpe, who died on 7 February 2024, and Margaret Mary…