12 Oct 2021
Estate of R M Andrews [2021] NZHC 2721
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 2721
- Court
- High Court
The court confined the originating application to the narrow legal question whether debts provable in bankruptcy must be taken into account for calculating a beneficiary's share and held the expert affidavit of Mr Parsons inadmissible as not relevant to that limited issue; several extensive background and argumentative paragraphs of the respondent's affidavit were struck because they were irrelevant or improperly set out documentary/extraneous material, while remaining passages directly tied to the construction issue were preserved; substantive determination on effect of bankruptcy on account…