News December 03 2025

Man wins 10-year battle to inherit family estate after appeal court ruling

Updated December 9 2025 3 min read

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The court heard that Durant had posted a video on social media falsely claiming that the candidate had sent him cash in an election envelope. He later claimed the post was a joke.

A St Andrew man who was shut out of his uncle’s estate is now back in line to inherit after the Court of Appeal ruled that the will excluding him was a forgery, ending a legal battle that lasted over a decade. The court ruled that the purported 2006 will of Calvin Bartholomew Williams was not genuine, overturning a Supreme Court decision that had previously accepted the document as legitimate. The challenged instructed the exclusion of the appellant, Winston Keen Sr, from inheriting five properties and two overseas bank accounts.

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