birketts ec3law – Will forgery: how hard is it to prove?

How likely is a beneficiary to get away with forging a will for their own, or someone else’s, benefit? Claims involving suspected forgery of wills are becoming more and more common in the world of contentious practitioners and the High Court was asked to determine this very issue in the recent case of Rainey –v- Weller [2021] EWHC 2206 (Ch).