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No win, no fee solicitor news
16/04/2007
Is there a no win, no fee claim episode in the pipeline for Eastenders?
A recent Eastenders storyline provokes some interesting legal questions surrounding clauses in wills providing for the disinheritance of a potential benefactor if he or she cohabits with a particular person.
In the case of Martin Fowler, were he to swallow the famous Fowler pride, he just might be able to make a no win, no fee claim contesting the clause in his mother's will which stated that he would be left nothing if continued to live with his lover Sonia.
The 1975 Inheritance (Provisions for Family Dependents) Act would only have protected Martin's stake in the will if he were a child, or incapable of providing for himself because of debilitating personal injury.
There is some precedent for Martin Fowler to pursue a successful no win no fee solicitor claim though. In 1849 there was the case of a man's will which stated that his son should be disinherited if he married or cohabited with the daughter of a local soap-boiler.
In the end, the son disobeyed his father's wishes and married soap-boiling Harriet, and a judge by the name of Lord Langdale ruled that the son should be able to keep the money.
So, perhaps there was no need for Martin and Sonia to elope from London to Manchester after all, and right now they could be savouring the taste of a no win, no fee claim over a few pints in the Queen Vic.
