UK law firm Irwin Mitchell has been instructed by John Clitheroe, who has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for his appeal for his mother’s two wills to be reinstated.

The battle between Mr Clitheroe and his sister, Susan Bond, has been waged since their mother Jean Clitheroe’s death in 2017, and was heard by a Deputy Master in March this year. 

The judgment was delivered in May 2020, ruling both of Ms Clitheroe’s 2010 and 2013 Wills invalid because of mental capacity issues she allegedly displayed after the death of her daughter, Debra, in 2009.

Mr Clitheroe has now instructed will dispu...