The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[2001] Ch 568
Court of Appeal
In re DWS, decd
In re EHS, decd
TWGS 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 LJJ
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
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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))