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Trusts

(1) Dixon (2) Dixon v The Crown Estate Commissioners [2022] EWHC 3256

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2022/3256.html Judge Hodge KC. The claimants sought vesting orders in respect of two properties, following the striking off and dissolution of the company (in which the claimants had previously been shareholders) which was the registered proprietor. The Crown disclaimed any

Oil on Troubled Waters

Oil on Troubled Waters

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 is another dispute in the seemingly never-ending conveyor-belt of cases about real ownership of a home. The property – Picnic House – (the litigation being anything but a picnic) was upon its acquisition in 2007 legally and beneficially owned by Lee Hudson (LH) and Jayne

ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 128

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/128 Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'

HA v WA v BV [2022] EWFC 110

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/110 Sir Jonathan Cohen. Issue between the parties in relation to beneficial ownership of a property held in the W’s sole name. H’s case was that the property belonged legally and beneficially to the W, where the W’s case was

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWHC 631 (QB)

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWHC 631 (QB)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2022/631.html Before I sat down to read Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWHC 631 (QB) and write this blog, I was primed ready to come up with a flashy introductory sentence. Something along the lines of, “once in a generation something

A v V [2022] EWHC 3501 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2022/3501.html Mr Justice Francis. A ‘relatively straightforward’ application pursuant to Schedule 1. F’s costs were c.£3.8m and M’s were £1.7m, despite F attending the final hearing as a litigant in person. F ran the millionaire’

Daga v Bangur [2018] EWFC 91

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2018/91.html