{"id":24,"date":"2014-01-29T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.firstclasswills.co.uk\/?p=24"},"modified":"2020-05-04T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:03:41","slug":"wills-should-stand-despite-signature-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/wills-should-stand-despite-signature-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Wills Should Stand Despite Signature Error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mix-up in signatures on mirror wills should not be allowed to disinherit a couple\u2019s intended heir, the Supreme Court ruled today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving judgment in the case of Marley v Rawlings and another, Lord Neuberger said that the wills of Maureen and Alfred Rawlings should be treated in the same way as a commercial contract in that an obvious oversight should not be allowed to invalidate the testators\u2019 wishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today&#8217;s Supreme Court judgment Lord Neuberger said: \u2018Whether the document in question is a commercial contract or a will, the aim is to identify the intention of the party or parties to the document by interpreting the words used in their documentary, factual and commercial context.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hooray for common sense &#8211; not always applied at law! For the full report, please see the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawgazette.co.uk\/5039503.article?utm_source=dispatch&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=GAZ220114\">http:\/\/www.lawgazette.co.uk\/5039503.article?utm_source=dispatch&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=GAZ220114<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mix-up in signatures on mirror wills should not be allowed to disinherit a couple\u2019s intended heir, the Supreme Court ruled today. Giving judgment in the case of Marley v Rawlings and another, Lord Neuberger said that the wills of Maureen and Alfred Rawlings should be treated in the same way as a commercial contract <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osmondswills.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}