The Weekly Law Reports
[2000] 3 WLR 1910
[COURT OF APPEAL]
In re
D.W.S., Decd.
In re
E.H.S., Decd.
T.W.G.S. (a Minor) v. G. and Others
[Ch. 1995 S. No. 175]
1999 March 1;
5
2000 Oct. 12; 13;
Nov. 9
2000 Oct. 12; 13;
Nov. 9
Blackburne J. sitting as Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster Simon Brown, Aldous and Sedley L.JJ.
Public Policy
— Administration of estates
— Murder of intestate parents
— Son convicted of murder
— Son's forfeiture of right to estate as nearest next-of-kin
— Whether son's issue entitled to deceased's estate
—
Administration of Estates Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 23)
ss. 46(1)(i), 47
(as amended by Intestates' Estates Act 1952 (c. 64), s. 1(2)(3))