Jacob Gifford Head

Jacob Gifford Head

Jacob Gifford Head is a barrister and mediator practising at Thomas More Chambers in London. He specialises in family, chancery and related civil law ...

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Partnering Up: Partnership Law and Financial Remedy Proceedings

Partnering Up: Partnership Law and Financial Remedy Proceedings

The Department for Business & Trade’s most recent Business Population Estimates suggested that there are approximately 356,000 ordinary partnerships currently trading within the United Kingdom, generating a turnover of just under £1 billion. The majority of these are small enterprises involving either no or fewer than ten employees.

They Think It’s All Over… It Is Not! Express Declarations, Subsequent Agreements and the Decision in Re Cynberg

They Think It’s All Over… It Is Not! Express Declarations, Subsequent Agreements and the Decision in Re Cynberg

In Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17, at [49], Baroness Hale said that ‘[n]o-one now doubts that … an express declaration [of trust] is conclusive unless varied by subsequent agreement or affected by proprietary estoppel’. It might reasonably be observed that the authority cited for that proposition, the decision of

Jacob Gifford Head

Jacob Gifford Head is a barrister and mediator practising at Thomas More Chambers in London. He specialises in family, chancery and related civil law and has a particular interest in disputes which cross between these areas.