06 May 2021
Banks v Goodfellow Test still works
The High Court has clarified that a test for capacity from an 1870 case remains good law, in a bitter wills dispute between two siblings.
Lucinda Brown, Partner in our will and trust disputes team, comments on this development in an article for New Law Journal, saying:
‘Practitioners would welcome the clarity the decision brings that a test in use for the past 150 years remains good.’
The full article is available, here.