Australia, April 27 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 27:
1. WARD P: This appeal challenges the decision by Rees J that an unsigned electronic word document (the 2019 Will) constituted the last will of Andrew David Findlay (the deceased) (see Kemp v Findlay [2024] NSWSC 902, the primary judgment). The appellant, Elizabeth Kemp, is the former partner of the deceased and the sole beneficiary under a will executed by the deceased (and duly witnessed) in 2015 (the 2015 Will). Under the 2019 Will, the whole of the deceased's estate was left to the couple's three infant children in equal shares. The respondent, David Findlay, is the deceased's cousin and the executor named in the 2019 W...