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Video: Clitheroe v Bond [2021] EWHC 1102 (Ch) case law update with Kate Selway KC and Edward Hicks

In this case law update video, Kate Selway KC is in conversation with Edward Hicks, who acted as junior counsel for the successful respondent before Mrs Justice Falk in Clitheroe v Bond [2021] EWHC 1102 (Ch), on appeal from the decision of Deputy Master Linwood at trial pronouncing against two wills of the deceased for want of testamentary capacity ([2020] EWHC 1185 (Ch)). The appeal considered, amongst other things, whether the test for capacity in Banks v Goodfellow had been replaced by the test for capacity in the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

Recorded on 25 May 2021.