Murder and a will, fraud by a translator, and a successful family law prototype in Victoria

This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: As a matter of public policy, courts will not recognize a benefit accruing to a criminal for his crime. As a result, a murderer cannot collect life insurance or a gift in a will from the person they murdered. A recent BC Supreme Court case considered how the estate of a mother, who was murdered by one of her two adult sons, should be divided. The son, who committed the murder, had a daughter who was born 11 days after the murder. The...