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Review of Succession Law

Project status: Researching issues Start date 18 December 2019 Last updated 16 April 2020

The Law Commission will review the law of succession. The law of succession is the system of rules that governs who gets a person’s property when they die.

In July 2019 the Minister Responsible for the Law Commission requested that the...

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