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Yes, quite, Dominic. My thoughts were that if the parties had signed the correct wills, but their spouses had witnessed the other's signatures, the witnessing would have been valid, but the gift of residue failed. In that event the sons would have inherited on intestacy and not the intended beneficiary. So the moral seems to be if you make a mistake make a good, or should that be bad, job of it!

And I would still like to know how much all this cost, who paid for it and what was the effect on PII policies?