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The Law Commission has opened a consultation on Wills: specifically asking if marriage should revoke a Will (along with the possibility of electronic Wills). Of course this is one of our goals: to ensure that a marriage does not revoke an existing Will. If you support this change please go to https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/wills/ and say so. […]

Fabian Hamilton MP and Daphne Franks interviewed by Gloria DePiero on GB News. https://youtu.be/22lqrzcoxUo?t=1355

On Wednesday, June 9, Fabian Hamilton will be asking a question about Predatory Marriage at Prime Minister’s Questions which usually starts at midday on the Parliament channel. Please watch if you can!

Ontario – which has a very similar legal setup to the UK – is implementing one of the changes we want. Bill 245 will mean that a will is not revoked on marriage: this is one of the main drivers for Predatory Marriage. The Bill is here, and here is a good description of why […]

This is from the 2012 case of A Local Authority v AK & Others, https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/COP/2012/B29.html involving a man, AK, who had a brain injury and was declared to have lacked capacity to marry, where the Judge said this: “This case has thrown up the role of Registrars and of the registration service when a borderline-incapacitated […]

We are very grateful to Imogen Campbell who designed and created our website back in 2017. She did a fantastic job and has really helped our campaign to be taken seriously. The website was getting rather out of date so we have now altered it slightly and moved it to a different hosting provider to […]

I have put together a talk about our case and Predatory Marriage in general and was beginning to give the talk regularly to people in Law and Safeguarding before the Covid pandemic. At the moment, however, I am delivering the talk online and if you think it would be useful for your organisation, do please […]