Just for clarity, this wasn't the Supreme Court. It was the BC Supreme Court, which is that province's equivalent to the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench. We'll see if it goes to appeal.
I think I'm of the same two minds about this as everyone else. The will was clearly discriminatory, but this was also a private issue. I'm more than a little concerned if courts can just arbitrarily decide that what you do with your assets has to meet whatever arbitrary standards it wants to create.
On the other hand, a will written 25 years ago probably had deficiencies that could have invalidated it, and if the daughters' claim that (a) the parents had intended to update the will to be more equitable is credible and (b) the one brother indicated that he also felt the will should be rewritten, it lends weight to their argument.
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