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undue influencefraudulent calumny
Todd v Parsons
[2019] EWHC 3366 (Ch)
Key Principle
The Banks v Goodfellow test (not the Mental Capacity Act 2005) governs testamentary capacity, and challenges by way of undue influence and fraudulent calumny require the challenger to prove, respectively, coercion or fraud overbearing the testator's will and the dishonest poisoning of the testator's mind against a potential beneficiary causing the relevant disposition.
Area of Law
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