Law360 Canada ( December 17, 2025, 9:42 AM EST) -- Appeal by the appellant from a chambers judge’s order declaring that two electronic communications from the deceased were fully effective to alter her will by removing the appellant as a beneficiary. The deceased sent a text and an email to her executrix expressing her intention to redo her will and remove the appellant as a beneficiary. The chambers judge concluded that the communication reflected the deceased’s fixed and final intention to do so and ordered that the record was fully effective to alter the will. The deceased passed away Jan. 7, 2023, without seeing the lawyer and without making a new will. The appellant contended that the chambers judge erred by failing to properly apply the Wills, Estates and Succession Act’s (WESA) formal requirements for revocation of the 2014 will, treating informal text and email messages as evidence of a final testamentary intention, assessing conflicts in the evidence in a summary proceeding, and finding an email from the deceased’s notary to be inadmissible hearsay. The respondents contended the chambers judge made no reversible error. They said the appellant was re-arguing the petition and improperly asking this Court to re-weigh the evidence, and that the communications were sufficient to reflect the deceased’s intention....