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If it does nothing else, the Practice Note provides a helpful reminder that the testamentary freedom of some foreign clients may be limited by the laws of their home countries in ways that English law regards as binding; and for the sake of our indemnity premiums we should not ignore this when drafting their wills.

I wonder, too, if the sharia principles of succession are really so outrageous that we should reject our clients' instructions to give effect to them by their wills simply because they are based in religion. Much of English law can be traced to principles of Christian morality, and is none the worse for that.

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