TE v Wellington Standards Committee LCRO 100/2010, 92/2011, 153/2012 (1 February 2013) [pdf, 126 KB]
...will and Estate. The assets of the deceased included significant holdings in securities, but unlike the present situation, there was no specific bequest of those securities in the will. All but one of the beneficiaries of the Estate made several requests for the securities to be transferred to them, but the lawyer/executor resisted that request on the basis that there would otherwise be insufficient funds to meet a specific monetary bequest, and also on the grounds that as one of...