PT-2022-000261 - [2025] EWHC 2060 (Ch)

The legal principles applicable to the issue of whether a testator knew and approved of the contents of a will are set out in Gill v Woodall [2010] EWCA Civ 1430, [2011] Ch 380. At [71], Lloyd LJ held that the correct approach to considering knowledge and approval was to ask a single question, namely had the testator understood: (a) what was in the will when she signed it; and (b) what its effect would be. That question should be considered in the light of all the available evidence, and the appropriate inferences to be drawn from that evidence.