Denzil lush biography of donald
This article explores the history of the Court of Protection of England & Wales (CoP) over the twentieth century.!
Denzil Lush, former Senior Judge of the English Court of Protection, expressed a critical view of the.
Court of Protection senior judge retires
Senior Judge Denzil Lush retires today (Monday 18th July) after nearly four decades in law. He told Today’s Wills and Probate about his career highlights.
Obviously estate planning and probate has been a specialism of yours throughout your career – what, for you, made this an interesting area to work in?
“When I was a student, I used to visit the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane to look at old wills that had been proved in the ecclesiastical courts before the Court of Probate Act 1857 transferred the responsibility for granting probate and letters of administration from the church courts to the civil courts.
In about one in twenty cases, the personality of the testator shone through, and you felt as though you had actually met them, even though they had been dead for centuries.
“When I was in practice I particularly enjoyed drafting wills and often tried to create a pen portrait of the individual within the will itself.
I did this
