When I first qualified at the end of the last century, the perceived wisdom was that around 2% of disputed claims, whether fully contested or solely an argument over value, saw resolution by a Judge at a trial. At around that time the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) came into force, bringing sweeping changes in the […]
On 15th March 2017 the Supreme Court (House of Lords) handed down its judgement in the case of Ilott v Mitson. This claim began when Heather Ilott bought a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (”the Act”) against the estate of her late mother, Melita Jackson, who died in 2004. […]
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