Mention the doings of the EU and most people’s eyes roll upwards or glaze over, particularly if it is a topic headed, snappily “Proposal for a Council Regulation on jurisdiction, applicable law and the recognition and enforcement of decisions regarding the property consequences of registered partnerships”. Despite this common reaction, sometimes the EU takes on difficult [...]
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Whaley v Whaley, Round 2. One for the girls?
March 28, 2011
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Millionaire Athelstan Whaley appeared before the Court of Appeal last Wednesday in an attempt to overturn Mrs Justice Baron’s order made last year requiring him to transfer to his former wife Belinda two properties in Kent and to pay her a lump sum of £3 million. Athelstan’s basic presentation is that complying with the order will render [...]
Read moreUn-named, but one for the boys?
March 28, 2011
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The Telegraph reported last Wednesday (“Wife loses bid for bigger payout from estranged husband”, Victoria Ward) on an anonymised judgment handed down by Mr Justice Mostyn, resolving the financial claims of 2 divorcing Americans. At issue was the division of the family’s estimated wealth of £9.714 million. The wife, aged 46, wanted her husband’s pre-marriage assets of £2.1 [...]
Read morePitt v Holt and Futter v Futter (aka Hastings-Bass revisited) – one up to the Revenue
March 25, 2011
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The story so far. Hastings-Bass, a case decided in 1975, gave life in legal terms to the proposition that should a trustee (or a person acting in a similar capacity such as a Court of Protection deputy) make a decision (otherwise known as “the exercise of a discretionary dispositive power”) with unforeseen but adverse fiscal consequences through, say, [...]
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- ETK v News Group Newspapers – the right to privacy
- Pitt v Holt and Futter v Futter (aka Hastings-Bass revisited) – one up to the Revenue
- New Draft GMC Guidelines on Child Abuse
- Registered partners and EU (dis)harmony
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