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Beneficial Ownership: Fair shares
Mark Pawlowski considers some potentially far-reaching implications arising from recent case law on ownership of the family home ‘In the case of a purchase in joint names, the presumption of joint ownership in law and equity prevailed in the absence of contrary intention at the time of purchase or following acquisition of the property.’The Supreme …
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- Bedson v Bedson [1965] 2 QB 666
- Clarke v Harlowe [2005] EWHC 3062 (Ch); [2005] WTLR 1473
- Clarke v Meadus [2010] EWHC 3117 (Ch); [2013] WTLR 199
- Fowler v Barron [2008] EWCA Civ 377
- Goodman v Gallant [1985] EWCA Civ 15
- Jones v Kernott [2009] EWHC 1713 (Ch); [2009] WTLR 1771; [2010] EWCA Civ 578; [2010] WTLR 1583; [2011] UKSC 53; [2012] WTLR 125
- Leake v Bruzzi [1974] 2 All ER 1196
- Pink v Lawrence (1977) 36 P & CR 98
- Springette v Defoe [1992] 2 FLR 388
- Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17; [2007] WTLR 1053 HL
- Wilson v Wilson [1963] 2 All ER 447