Mrs Death Cap

[John Gryphon]

Her lawyers will be so happy. She inherited circa 2 million bucks,they will work to get plenty of it too.

Seven reasons Erin Patterson says her murder convictions should be quashed

Triple-murderer Erin Patterson is fighting to have her conviction quashed, claiming there was a "substantial miscarriage of justice" during her trial.

www.abc.net.au

 

[enfieldspares]

Ah now then JG in the Anglo-Saxon legal system...so ours and, by common history, yours...you cannot inherit money obtained when you have unlawfully killed your benefactor. Even if their will says you inherit on their death the law says that if you unlawfully caused their death that you won't. So unless she overturns the convictions she will get nothing.

It is one of those odd things you learn when being taught "Equity and Trusts". That and that in a simultaneous event where exact sequence of who died when cannot be determined (think the recent Titanic submarine implosion where father and son died) then the law will hold that for inheritance purposes under a will that the oldest in age will be held as the first "in time" to have died in that simultaneous event.

“In all cases where… two or more persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain which of them survived the other or others, such deaths shall (subject to any order of the court), for all purposes affecting the title to property, be presumed to have occurred in order of seniority, and accordingly the younger shall be deemed to have survived the elder.”

Scarle v Scarle (2019) which was about a will but note s4(2) of the Inheritance Tax Act where for tax purposes the law is different.

Who Died First? Analysis of Scarle v Scarle - Becket Chambers

In this article Nicole Jennings from Becket Chambers provides an analysis of the recent case of Scarle v Scarle [2019] EWHC 2224 (Ch)

becket-chambers.co.uk