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Gardiner v Tabet [2021] EWHC 563 (Ch), 2021 WL 00965862

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The case: One of the issues in this case was the testamentary capacity of a testator on 29 May 2017. He was suffering with rapidly progressive brain damage due to the glioblastoma multiforme and manic mental state phenomena owing to either bipolar disorder or delirium.

 

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