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Borkowski’s Law of Succession (4thedn, 2020) – web links
This provides access to Law Commission Consultation Papers, Reports etc, to which reference is made throughout the book. These include a Consultation Paper on Making A Will.
This is an archived version of Treasury Solicitor, ‘Guide to Discretionary Grants in Estate Cases’ (2008). It sets out the Treasury Solicitor’s approach to making grants out of property that reverts to the Crown under bona vacantia when it does not fall to be distributed according to the usual intestacy rules. As noted at 2.2.5 of the book, the current status of this document is unclear.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2192014
This provides free access to chapter 1 of B. Sloan, Informal Carers and Private Law (2013). It contains more detail on some of the issues raised at 1.3.4.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/attitudes-inheritance-britain
This is K. Rowlingson and S. McKay, Attitudes to Inheritance in Britain (2005), an empirical study discussed at 1.3.1 and 1.3.3.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey
This is the English Housing Survey, an ongoing Government study on housing conditions. Some of the latest publications at the time of going to print are discussed at 1.3.3.
This is A. Humphrey et al, ‘Inheritance and the Family: Attitudes to Will-Making and Intestacy’ (2010), an empirical study concerned with the attitudes raised in chapter 2 inter alia.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1660641
This is L.W. Waggoner, ‘The Uniform Probate Code’s Elective Share: Time for a Reassessment (With an Addendum Reporting on Post-Publication Amendments)’, University of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 208, 2010). It provides valuable information on the US Uniform Probate Code, discussed at 1.2.1.3.
https://www.probate-solicitors.co.uk/national-consumer-wills-report.pdf
This is S Brooker, Finding the Will: A Report on Will-Writing Behaviour in England and Wales (2007), which provides valuable empirical insights on making and not making wills. The National Consumer Council, which commissioned the study, apparently no longer exists.
This is Collyer-Bristow, ‘An Age of Apathy: Changing the Conversation Around Wills’ (2019), a survey of 374 people in the UK aged 18-50 with an income of £50k or over taken to explore their perception of the importance of a will, their reservations in making one and their knowledge of the relevant law.