WLR & Anor v WLT & Anor
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| Court | High Court (Family Division) |
|---|---|
| Decided | |
| Judge | Choo Han Teck |
| Charges / claim | Family Law |
| Counsel | Allen & Gledhill LLP, CNPLaw LLP, TSMP Law Corporation, Adrian Tan Gim Hai, Angela Chai Rui Min, Hu Huimin, Lim Lei Theng, Ong Pei Ching, S Lingesh Kumar, See Tow Soo Ling |
Source: [2023] SGHCF 24, High Court (Family Division), decided — eLitigation. Updated .
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Case Significance
WLR and another v WLT and another and other matters [2023] SGHCF 24 is a reserved judgment of Choo Han Teck J in the General Division of the High Court (Family Division), delivered on 11 May 2023 in Originating Summonses (Mental Capacity Act) Nos 2, 3, 4 and 5 of 2022. The matters were brought under Section 20 of the Mental Capacity Act (Cap 177A) concerning P, a person alleged to lack capacity, whose spouse L she married in the early 1960s and with whom she raised four children. The present dispute is a head-on confrontation between two of the children, T and his sister J, over deputyship in relation to P.
Summary
These consolidated Mental Capacity Act originating summonses concerned a mother, P, who suffers from severe Alzheimer's disease, with her children disputing who should be appointed as her deputy and whether a Lasting Power of Attorney should be revoked. Finding that P had already lost mental capacity by 10 January 2019, the court set aside the LPA executed on that date as invalid. It granted the deputyship applications with amendments to the deputies appointed, and dismissed one of the four summonses.
What was WLR and another v WLT and another [2023] SGHCF 24 about?
Choo Han Teck J heard four Originating Summonses under Section 20 of the Mental Capacity Act concerning P, a person alleged to lack capacity. The deputyship dispute was a confrontation between two of P's children, T and his sister J. The judgment was delivered on 11 May 2023.
What is the deputyship issue in WLR and another v WLT and another [2023] SGHCF 24?
The proceedings, brought under Section 20 of the Mental Capacity Act (Cap 177A) in relation to P, a person alleged to lack capacity, turned on a deputyship dispute between family members, principally P's children T and J, while other children G and W were not involved or only peripherally so.
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