Two daughters of a top banker who referred to their dad as "The Chequebook" have lost a court fight with their step mum after being cut out of his £7m fortune when he died. "Gifted financier" Tony Shearer, the former head of merchant bank Singer and Friedlander and finance governor of Rugby School, died aged 68 in October 2017 from a brain tumour.
After his death, almost all of his fortune was left in the hands of their step mum Pamela Shearer, 68, with nothing in his will for his daughters Juliet Miles, 40, and Lauretta Shearer, 38.
The sisters, who put the figure at around £7m, launched a High Court fight against their step mum for "maintenance" from their dad's multimillion pound estate to replace the "generous financial provision" they
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