The BBC recently reported on a rather bizarre story coming out of Australia. A court decided that an unsent text message found within a deceased man’s mobile phone was enough to constitute a legally valid will. Instead of relying on legislative formalities, the court instead cited the man’s clear intentions as their reasoning for the decision.

The case of a son, who is suing his mother and sisters after he was cut out of his dementia suffering father’s will is widely reported in the press this week. The brief facts of the case are that the 60 year old son, Sam James, had worked on the family farm all his life and claimed that he did this on the promise that he would inherit it. He thought that his father had signed a will in 2004 leaving the farm to him, but he claims that his mother intercepted this will and that she pressurised his father to sign a new will (in 2012) while he was suffering from dementia, that excluded Sam entirely. The ruling will be delivered at a later date.

In a paper published recently City watchdogs the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have proposed changing the way in which applications…

In the recent case of Vucicevic v Aleksic, the High Court has managed to interpret a homemade, handwritten will, made by a testator with poor written English, which had a number of ambiguous clauses. The details of the case almost read like an exam question.

So last night I watched Eastenders with interest as the mystery around Sonia Fowler’s time in Kettering was revealed. It…