Daughter wins fight.A WOMAN who contested her parents' will after they left their pounds 2 million estate to the RSPCA RSPCA (in Britain) Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RSPCA n abbr (Brit) (= Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) → SPA f today won her legal challenge. Christine Gill, 58, from Northallerton started her legal battle last year to challenge the will, which she claimed her father coerced her mum into making. During previous High Court hearings in Leeds, Judge James Allen QC had heard how Dr Gill was given assurances that she would inherit Potto Carr Farm, in North Yorkshire. In his judgment, Judge Allen said it would be "unconscionable Unusually harsh and shocking to the conscience; that which is so grossly unfair that a court will proscribe it. When a court uses the word unconscionable to describe conduct, it means that the conduct does not conform to the dictates of conscience. " if she did not. |
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