Grijns v Grijns & Ors [2025] EWHC 1413 (Ch)
Master Bowles (sitting in retirement). Failed proprietary estoppel claim by son who lived in his parents’ Chelsea property for over 20 years.
TLATA
Dervis v Deniz [2025] EWHC 902 (Ch)
Judgment date: 11 April 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2025/902
Edwin Johnson J. TLATA judgment setting out the circumstances in which a new claim can be pursued on appeal, the law regarding the ‘release’ of one’s beneficial interest in property to another joint tenant, and
What’s in a WhatsApp: Can a WhatsApp Message Transfer a Property?
The decision of Deputy Insolvency and Company Courts Judge Frith (the judge) in Reid-Roberts and Burke v Mei-Lin and Gudmundsson [2024] EWHC 759 (Ch)[[1]] is one of the first published cases since the decision of the Court of Appeal in Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648, [2023] KB
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.
Duncan Needham v Susan Rosemary Ellis [2024] EWCC 29
Judgment date: 15 November 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewcc/2024/29
HHJ Tindal. An unusual case, involving two appeals arising from longstanding TLATA claims involving the former family home. Mr Needham’s application to vary the consent order which was made in 2017 was refused. He sought ‘permission
DDR v BDR (Financial Remedies, Beneficial Ownership and Insolvency) [2024] EWFC 278
Judgment date: 08 October 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/278
Alexander Chandler KC sitting as a High Court Judge. A complicated case, involving a consideration of three areas of law: insolvency, trusts of land, and financial remedies. Useful analysis of how the courts address the tension between
P v Q, R and S [2024] EWFC 164 (B)
Judgment date: 19 June 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/164
District Judge Veal. Final hearing concerning W’s claim in financial remedy proceedings for a beneficial interest in two properties which had been bought and renovated by H and the intervenors, H’s parents. District Judge