PT-2023-BRS-000112 - [2025] EWHC 2633 (Ch)

The following witnesses were called in support of the claim: Tom Wansbrough (the wills consultant), the claimant herself, and the second defendant. The first defendant did not cross-examine any of them, and their evidence is therefore unchallenged. On the other side, the first defendant, her husband and her son Matthew had all made witness statements for trial, but in the end none of them was called. That means that I do not have the benefit of their written evidence. I heard no oral evidence from Prof Alistair Burns, a consultant psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. However, I had the benefit of his unchallenged expert report, admissible in evidence under CPR rule 35.5. I am quite satisfied that he is properly qualified to give that expert evidence.