Trusts and Estates

This Court of Appeal decision involved two appeals which both had in common the issue of liability of solicitors and estate agents in cases involving identity fraud. The lead judgment was given by Lord Justice Patten, with whom Lord Justice Floyd..

This was the hearing of a preliminary issue in a claim brought by the Claimants, Amanda Tish, Revan Tish and Arabella Tish, under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”) against Daren Olley,..

The first half of 2018 has produced at least one notable post-Ilott decision at High Court level. The Supreme Court’s wide-ranging guidance on the concept of “maintenance” has fallen to be applied in the case of cohabitants, whose..