A professionally drafted, properly executed will has just been partly rewritten by the Court. Not because the testator lacked capacity, and not because anyone pressured him. Because the file could not prove he understood what he signed. In Elliott v Bateson & Anor (Re Estate of Mark Briant) [2026] EWHC 2440 (Ch), the court struck a life interest trust out of a 92-year-old's will, despite the drafter being an experienced solicitor whom the judge accepted was honest. Could this
