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The Partner Who Left A Draft
Iona Braithwaite, 41, is a litigation partner at Kessel Blythe LLP, a firm of fifty-eight fee earners on the third floor of Ardleigh House in Merevale, and the lead on *Fenn v Rundle Bank plc*: three thousand nine hundred and four members, two hundred and twelve million four hundred thousand pounds,
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About
On Monday the twenty-first of September, at ten past seven in the morning, she opens a file called WEDDING 09. 05. 27 in a folder on a laptop that syncs to two homes, and inside it is a draft of her own will, dated in the file properties the thirteenth of September, eight months before the wedding, carrying two hundred and fourteen tracked changes, every one of them attributed to her own name. She is disinherited. The whole of her estate goes to the trustees of a settlement, the sole trustee is the man she is going to marry, and the sole beneficiary of the trust is her. There is no gift to him in it at all, because a will cannot benefit the woman who makes it, so the only way a man can leave his wife-to-be her own money is through a machine he holds. She is not an heir. She is a person to be maintained, by a person with the legal title to the flat she is standing in, the mortgage on it,
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- A will that disinherits the woman who made it
- A nuptial settlement made without independent advice
- Professional falsification of document authorship
- A deleted or lost career and a dissolved partnership
- A member of the public reading private words in open court
- Sex between two consenting adults, written, including a standing order about stopping that is renegotiated
- A group of 3,904 people paying more because of a private decision
Cast
- I Iona Braithwaite Litigation partner at Kessel Blythe LLP, lead on Fenn v Rundle Bank plc, and the person the draft will is about no portrait yet
- D Declan Anandan Iyer Senior associate at Kessel Blythe joining Harrow Lind as an equity partner on 1 November 2026, and the drafter of the will no portrait yet
- N Nkechi Obi Managing partner of Kessel Blythe LLP and the independent trustee of a 2019 settlement of a partner's own property no portrait yet
- G Gareth Vellacott Head of private client at Harrow Lind and the man who refuses the instruction and then gives her a name no portrait yet