Inheritance (Episode 1)

The first episode of a new series called "Inheritance" aired on Monday 4 September on Channel 5. It is a fact-based programme which examines inheritance cases that have been decided by the courts, including interviews with the original parties and their lawyers; there are also comments from a clinical psychologist on the psychological impact of these cases on the parties and their effect on family relationships.

This first episode dealt with two inheritance cases. The first one was a case which, uniquely, went all the way to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land. It related to an application for the rectification of two wills belonging to a married couple (Mr and Mrs Rawling) who had mistakenly signed each other's wills because their solicitor, at a meeting, had accidentally handed them each other's will to sign.