This week has found me reading lots of different and interesting cases and I can barely keep up! However, I was really interested to read this case and, whilst I appreciate my amazing subscribers are being bombarded with emails, I just had to post about it. Last week, the Victorian Court of Appeal was called…
Tag: probate
Missing element: High Court orders new trial in solemn form probate proceedings; denial of procedural fairness
It appears to be raining estate and trust law cases from the High Court of Australia over the last two weeks. Yesterday, the High Court of Australia ordered a new trial be held in relation to solemn form probate proceedings in Nobarani v Mariconte [2018] HCA 36 on the basis that the appellant as denied…
“There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Imposter Testator and the Supreme Court
“There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr Seuss In an odd case, Chief Justice Catherine Holmes was called upon to determine an application of probate in solemn form with a side order of an imposter claim. In the case Martin Terrence Farrell v Warren Elbridge Boston [2016] QSC 278, the Applicant, Martin…
Computer Will upheld
In the Estate of Robin Michael (Deceased) [2016] SASC 164, the Supreme Court of South Australia held that a computer document was to be admitted to probate as the last will and testatment of the deceased. The Court itemised the following main issues to be determined were: Was the will on the deceased’s hard drive of…
Executor’s duty and what to do with that additional informal document
In their last days, people can often have cause to consider additional wishes they want to record somewhere as they consider what means most to them. Unfortunately, sometimes recording these wishes can become problematic for the executors and family left behind. Here’s a good example: I recently read the case of Re Mangan [2016] VSC 480…