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 …
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Probate Case Decision
EWCA grants wife deceived by husband's non-disclosure chance to revise consent order Thursday, 16 February 2023 Julia Goddard-Watts (the appellant) has won the first stage of her appeal against an England and Wales Family Court (EWFC) judgment that left her with less than 10 per cent of the assets from her 14-year marriage to businessman James Goddard-Watts (the respondent). The appellant had accepted this division of the assets, keeping the family home while her …
Decisive Win Against PRA
In respect of the case in question we were approached by a prospective Client who had been sued by PRA Group (UK) Limited in April 2022, and in respect of an alleged credit agreement which PRA said the Defendant had entered into with Barclays Bank UK PLC in December 2016. The principal sum claimed by PRA from the Defendant was in excess of £10,000 The Defendant had initially chosen to represent himself as a litigant in person and had, indeed, filed at Court a one sentence Defence to the …