A landmark legal ruling has seen a daughter who was explicitly left out of her mother’s Will awarded £164,000 in inheritance on appeal.

Heather Illot’s mother, Melita Jackson, passed away in 2004 and left her £468,000 estate to animal charities. Mrs Illot had eloped at the age of 17 with her boyfriend, an action that her mother had never forgiven and caused her to explicitly remove her daughter as a beneficiary. As a result, Mrs Jackson’s estate was left entirely to the RSPCA, RSPB and Blue Cross charities.

When Mrs Jackson passed away in 2004, her last Will explicitly stated that she did not want her daughter to receive a distribution, referencing her decision to leave the family home in 1978. In an accompanying letter she wrote: “I can seeSediment surface geochemistry of three Baltic Sea Deep Basins.
Three deep basins were chosen for this study and the most recent changes that are reflected in the uppermost 15 to 35 cm are reported. The Gotland Basin, the largest continuous sedimentation basin in the southern Baltic Sea, was chosen for the present study. Simultaneously, a quite large basin, the North Central Baltic Basin was investigated and chemical data are reported for the first time. In the southern Baltic Sea the Bornholm Basin was investigated. All 3 basins are different as regards the physicochemical conditions in the area. The investigated elements were divided into different groups according to their origin and geochemical behavior: elements of natural terrestrial origin; nutrients; elements that are confined to early diagenetic minerals; and in the