Theobald on Wills, 17th Edition (1st Supplement only)

The new supplement to Theobald on Wills records all the relevant cases on the law of will that have been decided since last edition. This new supplement explains a number of important developments for key cases and recent legislation that you need to be aware of to best serve your clients, including:

-The discussion of the obiter remarks of the Court of Appeal in Burgess v Hawes
-The “awful warning” of Marley v Rawlings

This supplement also updates you on:

-Examples are the EU Succession Regulation
-Developments in the law of constructive trusts and estoppel, as they affect wills
-Professional negligence in relation to wills
-Family provision
-Gifts for charitable purposes
-The possible effect of Human Rights law on gifts in wills
-The so-called “Rule in Hastings-Bass” and the associated law of mistake
-The new law applying to the capital and income of trusts
-The treatment of the new, or least modified approach to Wills, explained by the Court of Appeal in RSPCA v Sharp