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High Court determines that joint tenancy accrued to husband guilty of wife's manslaughter but that half of property was held as constructive trust for wife's estate.
Property law - trust - probate - joint tenancy - will executed in 1993 naming husband as executor - conviction of defendant of husband of testatrix - s 120, Succession Act 1965 - preclusion of husband from taking any share in testatrix's estate - renunciation by husband - assets held in joint names of testatrix and husband - property held as joint tenants - whether right of survivorship operated where one joint tenant had cause the death of the other - whether right of survivorship would allow husband to benefit from his crime - common law position - whether joint tenancy automatically severed - "forfeiture rule" - jus accrescdendi.
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