# Case (Forfeiture rule and assisting suicide). Morris v Morris \[2024\] EWHC 2554 (Ch)

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**Created:** [3 November 2024 20:41 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/case-forfeiture-rule-and-assisting-suicide-morris-v-morris-2024-ewhc-2554-ch/2895 "2024-11-03T20:41:00Z")\
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— A husband who had unlawfully assisted his wife's suicide applied (successfully) under s2(2) Forfeiture Act 1982 for the effect of the forfeiture rule, which ordinarily would have disabled him from taking any beneficial interest under her will, to be modified. The wife's children and sister had also travelled abroad with her but had not committed acts capable of assisting suicide.

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Full details available at: [https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Morris\_v\_Morris\_(2024)\_EWHC\_2554\_(Ch)?id=031124-2041](https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Morris_v_Morris_(2024)_EWHC_2554_(Ch)?id=031124-2041)