PR NEWSWIRE TOP STORIES.
PR Newswire, London, March 20. This is a selection of stories running today on the PR Newswire 24-hour service in the UNS basket on the PA feed. BUSINESSES IN LONDON are being sought by car manufacturer Ford to take part in a pilot project to...

PR NEWSWIRE TOP STORIES.
PR Newswire, London, March 21. This is a selection of stories which ran yesterday on the PR Newswire 24-hour service in the UNS basket on the PA feed. BUSINESSES IN LONDON are being sought by car manufacturer Ford to take part in a pilot project...

WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY!
Runaway success of HSBC's Free Will initiative PR Newswire, London, March 20. This press release is transmitted on behalf of HSBC Holdings. Launched last April, HSBC Bank's free Will initiative (offered to customers taking out life assurance, income protection or critical illness cover) has been...

Fictions of justice: testamentary intention and the (il)legitimate heir in Trollope's Ralph the Heir and Forster's Howards End.
IN 1766 WILLIAM BLACKSTONE wrote in volume II of his Commentaries "Of the Rights of Things" that the right to inherit actually predated the right to make a will. By confounding the individual's desire to direct the disposition of his goods (by submitting them to prescribed inheritance patterns), the...

The Weidenberger Will.
A recent case in Alberta provides recognition that persons who are mentally ill or suffer from a mental handicap can perform certain legal functions even though they may have a mental deficiency. Specifically, the case of the Weidenberger Estate held that a person with a mental illness can have...

Mandatory mediation of estate disputes.
Charles Dickens, in his 1853 novel Bleak House, told the tale of a lawsuit called Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. This family matter was in litigation before the Chancery Court, and he described it thus: "Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of...

Who what when and why? Capacity decisions.
Introduction Adults are presumed to be capable to make the decisions that they do unless it is shown otherwise; however, as people age the question of capacity becomes less cut and dried. Professionals--such as social workers, occupational therapists, physicians, and other health professionals--are often entrusted with helping...

Retirement may be far away, but now's the time to plan your exit. (OCS Report).
Remember how exciting it was when you first opened your business? You'd spent months planning everything from financing and location to marketing, products and services. Night after endless night you labored over plans, forecasts and proposals. But if you're like all too many business owners, there's one very important...

The nurse's role in determining testamentary capacity.
CASE ON POINT: In Re. Purported Last Will of Patton, 2004 WL 3030543 N.E.2d--DE ISSUE: Time and again, nurses are called upon to testify as to the testamentary capacity of patients. In some cases, it is crystal clear that patients are competent and of sound and disposing...

Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland.
Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland. By Debra Meyers. Religion in North America. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-34193-0.) Debra Meyers has undertaken an ambitious project: to uncover the role religion...