Ms Helen Doyle:

What about the Succession Act and the legal rights share provision? It is in such circumstance wills and intestacy comes in. The Succession Act provides that a person found guilty of homicide against the person who has left him or her something in a will, even if that person is the deceased person's spouse of civil partner, is no longer entitled to that legal right share, end of story and nobody has a problem with that. It is right. I know it is a future vesting of property but it is still a very clear right that is eradicated, and rightly so, if that person kills the person from whom he or she was to benefit. I do not see why we are tying ourselves up in knots about the survivorship element.