VULNERABLE CLIENT: The Celebrity’s statutory will hearing cannot be published In W v P (2025 EWCOP 11 T3), the wife of a now-incapacitated celebrity (P) applied to the England and Wales Court of Protection to make a statutory will for him for estate planning purposes. She asked for the associated hearing to be held privately. The judge decided...
CONTENTIOUS ESTATES: Missing will must be presumed revoked, says EWHC The judgment in Packer v Packer (2025 EWHC 461 Ch) is the first successful application of the presumption of revocation of a will for almost two decades. It extends the scope of the presumption of due execution. Stephen Packer’s widow alleged that he died intestate; however, his sister...
The First-tier Tax Tribunal (ftt) has ruled that a rabbi who resided in the UK for most of his life, raised a family, and built up a property business in Manchester was UK-domiciled for tax purposes (Weis v HMRC, 2025 UKFTT 348 TC). He claimed he intended to make Israel his permanent home; however, the FTT found...
Trustees of the Saint George Educational Trust have been removed and replaced with interim managers, after the Charity Commission for England and Wales (the Charity Commission) found the chairman had allowed the charity’s bank account to receive donations from unknown sources, which were then transferred to entities unknown to the trustees. The misconduct was discovered...
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