Rules on testamentary capacity established 140 years ago laid down clear principles, but failure to secure contemporaneous evidence at various stages of the will-making process continues to trip testators and their lawyers, says Peter Boynton
Too many basic errors have left the charity sector swarming with conflicts of interest – and it is up to lawyers to sort it out, says Michelle Russell
Everybody loves a good one: old ladies, vicars, poets, aristocrats, hard-bitten old soak boozers, opera-loving intellectuals, doctors, lawyers and everybody else on the sofa: murder is not dead but alive and kicking.
Vijay Ganapathy discusses recovering hospice treatment costs, overcoming the burden of proof in cases on industrial deafness, solicitors' hourly rates and occupiers' liability
