Dr. Christine Gill has been awarded the right to inherit her parents’ £2.3 million farm. Despite her father and mother Wills leaving the estate to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), she won her legal battle to claim property belonging to her family after being disinherited in her parents’ Wills.

Dr. Christine Gill, a university lecturer, had assisted with the farm’s upkeep for many years, alleged that her mother had been unwillingly coerced into making the Will by her husband, despite previously voicing a dislike of the RSPCA.

A High Court ruling also deemed that the RSPCA acted unreasonably because it refuse to accept mediation or dispute resolution procedures. The court ordered the charity to pay the majority of the legal costs.

I was browsing the internet and came across several freak accidents that happened this past few days. Some situation which we thought is relatively safe can turn out to be quite the opposite.

For example Tracy Boland, 46, suffered fatal injuries when she collided with a 26-year-old Dutch woman on the Kitzsteinhorn mountain in Kaprun, Austria. The accident is a mystery. They were in a relatively easy ski area and the conditions were good i.e the slope is very broad and is for beginners. There were no witnesses and both skiers were not skiing very fast. Apparently Tracy suffered a severed aorta in the collision.

In the next example, a 15 year old school girl was killed when her scarf got entangled with a go kart she was driving. The scarf strangled her as it tightened around her neck. This happened in Hong Kong over the Chinese New Year break. The full news is here.

Finally, in Burnley, UK, 62 year old John Temme died after a faulty handbrake caused his car to roll down the driveway hitting him in a freak accident. Apparently, he had intended to leave home in his Volvo with the intention of going to watch football. Perhaps he had forgotten something and went back to the house. Whatever the reason, we’ll never know. It seems he didn’t apply the handbrake to the highest notch and the car rolled down and struck him. The only logical verdict I can record is one of accidental death." via Burley Express

Never know when our time is up.

Hong Kong police arrested Fung Shui master Tony Chan for forging a Will that would have left him the multi billion dollar estate of Nina Wang. Claiming to be Nina Wang’s lover, Tony allegedly forged a later Will that would have given him the entirely estate.

After Nina’s death in 2007, two Wills emerged, one written in 2002 leaving the estate to Wang’s Chinachem charity and a latter one leaving it to Tony Chan. Over the year, Nina spent hundreds of millions on Tony, 20 years her junior.

A Hong Kong judge ruled that the woman who was once Asia’s richest never intended to leave him a multi-billion-dollar fortune.

The 2006 will has been discredited in court. A handwriting expert testified that it was probably a forgery and a solicitor whose name appears on the document could not confirm that the signature was his.

This is the second time that the Wang family fortune has been disputed. Nina Wang fended off a long-running legal challenge from her father-in-law in the 1990s when here husband Teddy Wang was kidnapped. His body was never found and he was declared dead after 9 years.

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