Private Law Theory

“In a recent case in the European Court of Human Rights, the court found that Greece should not have allowed the two sisters a deceased Muslim man apply Sharia law to contesting the validity of their brothers will. In Molla Sali v Greece, a Grand Chamber judgment held that Greece had violated Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits religious discrimination, when the country applied Sharia law to the inheritance of a wife’s estate …” (more)

[Gerry W Beyer, Wills, Trusts and Estates Prof Blog, 25 December]

First posted 2018-12-26 06:04:12