Overview

• Adam Scott is challenging the validity of his father’s 2016 wills, arguing that diagnosed dementia left Richard Scott unable to understand the changes when he married Jennifer Scott
• Jennifer Scott’s legal team highlights interviews by four registrars and a council lawyer who found Richard Scott had full mental capacity in April 2016
• The estate was valued at £7 million for probate but Jennifer Scott contends recent development offers push its worth to £43 million
• Adam Scott invokes proprietary estoppel, claiming decades of farm work and promises from his father entitled him to inherit the business
• Jennifer Scott’s counsel asserts that Adam Scott received more than £10 million in lifetime gifts and therefore has no further claim under the contested wills