Administrators ordered to disclose documents they created after testator’s death
In a dispute over the estate of deceased businessman Vladimir Alekseyevich Scherbakov, the England and Wales High Court (EWHC) has upheld an order requiring the interim administrators of his estate to disclose attendance notes and internal emails with a bearing on the estate assets and the contentious probate claim. Scherbakov’s ex-wife challenged the order on the grounds that the requested documents were not contemporaneous, having come into existence only after the estate administrators began their investigations of the disputed events (Morina v Scherbakova, 2023 EWHC 440 Ch).