Author Archives: Lember & Williams

Unusual Applications – Informal Testamentary Documents

In a Western Australian case decided in August, the deceased’s second wife and the deceased’s daughter from his first marriage sought to prove, as an informal Will, a video found on the deceased laptop following his death.   The quality of the video was very poor. An expert technician was engaged but he could not…

Interesting Court Applications – informal Wills

In December 2018 the defacto partner of the deceased applied to the Brisbane Supreme Court for an order that a video recording her deceased partner had made (and retained as a file on his personal computer) be declared to be a valid Will.   The deceased was to purchase a new motorcycle, and on that…