The October 2023 case of Trust Corp Ltd v Goodman’s Estate [2023] EWHC 2780 (Ch) has drawn attention once again to the forfeiture rule and its application in cases of assisted suicide, Sunir Watts, partner, and Sophia Smout, trainee, both at Hunters Law, write.
The ‘forfeiture rule’ (s1 Forfeiture Act 1982), which was first established in the 1892 case of Cleaver v Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association [1892] 1 QB 147, is a legal pri...