(764)  BUDDHIST NUN/COHABITANT SUCCESSION QUESTION AT AVIZANDUM

After hearing legal debate on 6 March 2008 Sheriff Thomas Ward of Stirling took to avizandum his judgement in the case where a Russian student who claims to have cohabited with the late James King before his death is seeking a share of his estate under the provisions of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 for the protection of cohabitants.  The defender is Mr King’s sister, who is a nun in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas (see previously No 739).