Charles Cooper | Barrister & Mediator

Category: Probate

Vasami & Anor v. Hack [2023] EWHC 2431 (Ch)

No detrimental reliance and no proprietary estoppel where ‘paid a wage, had free occupation of the farmhouse… with bills paid, and could and did undertake other paid employment’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2023/2431
Read more: Vasami & Anor v. Hack [2023] EWHC 2431 (Ch)
Winter & Anor v. Winter [2023] EWHC 2393 (Ch)

The benefit of a share in the partnership and shares in the family company worth £2million does not outweigh the detriment of ‘working very hard for most of their working lives for little reward in terms of pay’ in a claim for proprietary estoppel: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2023/2393
Read more: Winter & Anor v. Winter [2023] EWHC 2393 (Ch)
Del Curto v. Del Curto [2023] EWHC 2106

Jurisdiction of the foreign court should not be an issue when registering a judgment under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933 when the ‘only way in which the Judgment could be satisfied was by way of payment of money’ and where there was ‘nothing whatsoever in the Judgment… to the effect that the Judgment…
Read more: Del Curto v. Del Curto [2023] EWHC 2106