CIVIL PROCEDURE BACK TO BASICS 23: YOU CAN’T SUE THE DEAD: BUT YOU CAN SUE THEIR ESTATE: WHAT TO DO IF THERE IS NO ESTATE

This post is due to a search term that arrived on this blog today "how to join a deceased person to litigation".   The simple answer is that you can't. An action has to be against the deceased's estate. Attempting to sue the deceased would give rise to insuperable problems, not least it would lead  ...