05 February 2021

Oxford don awarded nearly £1m in damages after law firm negligently drafted property trust agreement - Scottish Legal News

Oxford don awarded nearly £1m in damages after law firm negligently drafted property trust agreement - Scottish Legal News
... The first claimant, a Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, was the only child of Dr Jean Weddell, with whom he had reconnected in 1990 after he had been given up for adoption. In 2003 she decided that she wished for her Edwardian home in Kennington to pass to him after his death, estimated to be worth over £1 million. ...
... In around 2006, Dr Weddell entered a relationship with Wendy Cook, a 37-year-old barrister. Her relationship with her son degraded, particularly after she became Ms Cook’s civil partner and moved to a house on the Isle of Wight with her in 2010. There, she made a new will that passed the majority of her estate to Ms Cook and stated to a solicitor that she wished the Kennington property to be sold.  ...

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