Culliford & anr v Thorpe [2020] WTLR 1205
Winter 2020 #181The deceased purchased a property in Weston-super-Mare (the Weston property) in his sole name in 2002 with the aid of a mortgage loan. He met the defendant in early 2010 and by the end of the year the defendant had moved into the Weston property with the deceased and it became his main residence. The defendant undertook repair and decoration jobs around the property, including repairing the boiler and decorating the main bedroom, and undertook work for others in return for work on the property by them. The general outgoings for the property and for the lifestyle of the deceased and the d...
Price v Saundry & anr [2019] WTLR 683
Summer 2019 #175The First Defendant sought to rectify two declarations of trust entered into by the Claimant and the deceased husband of the First Defendant (“Mr Saundry”) in 2006 and 2009. The trusts arose out of a residential property business operated by Mr Saundry and the deceased husband of the Claimant (“Mr Price”).
Both of the declarations of trust related to a large number of properties, which were legally held in Mr Saundry’s sole name, but according to the declarations of trust were beneficially owned as tenants in common in equal shares by Mr Saundry and the Claimant.
The 2006 d...