The Court of Session has upheld a Will made shortly before the testatrix’s her death in which she left £3m to re-finance her failing newspaper business.  

The will was challenged by the testatrix’s sister on the grounds of: “(i) lack of testamentary capacity, (ii) undue influence and/or (iii) facility and circumvention.  Put short, she contends that, by the time she came to make the codicil and the new will, Deirdre was so frail mentally, as a result of the pain she was suffering, that she was incapable of understanding what she was doing; or, even if capable of understanding, was in no state to resist the undue influence of those in whom she trusted or the pressure to which she was subjected.”

The full case report can be found here.