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Ball v Ball & anr [2020] WTLR 741
JUDGMENT CHIEF MASTER MARSH: [1] This claim concerns a dispute between three siblings. I will, as at the disposal hearing on 5 and 6 March 2020, use the parties’ given names: Christopher, Jennifer and Jonathan. I will refer to their parents as ‘Father’ and ‘Dorothy’. Wroe’s is a store that was set up by Father …
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December 16, 2020
Williams & anr v Russell Price Farm Services Ltd [2020] WTLR 733
JUDGMENT HHJ PAUL MATTHEWS: Introduction [1] This is my judgment on a claim made by claim form issued on 26 March 2020 under CPR Part 8, for an order under s125 of the Companies Act 2006 to rectify the register of members of the defendant company. The claimants are the three named executors of the …
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October 18, 2020
Thakare & ors v Bhusate [2020] WTLR 691
JUDGMENT MR EDWIN JOHNSON QC: Introduction [1] This is an appeal against a decision of Chief Master Marsh to grant permission for the making of a claim, out of time, pursuant to the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (‘the 1975 Act’). [2] The claim concerns the estate of Mr. Kashinath Vithoba Bhusate …
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Shelford & anr v HMRC [2020] WTLR 657
JUDGMENT JUDGE ALEKSANDER: Introduction [1] These appeals are against the determinations by HMRC issued on 22 August 2016 under s222 Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (‘IHTA’). The inheritance tax (‘IHT’) in dispute is £560,000. [2] The determinations were issued, all in the same terms, to each of the four executors of John Selwyn Herbert (‘Mr Herbert’), …
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Nemazee v Nemazee [2020] WTLR 637
JUDGMENT HHJ GERALD: [1] On 27th May 2015 Nazrene Nemazee, then aged 95, entered into four material transactions by signing, first, a long lease of 6 Glebe Close, Prince of Wales Terrace, Chiswick, London W4 2EZ which was in exercise by her of her right to buy her Council flat which she had occupied since …
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London Capital & Finance plc v Global Security Trustees Ltd [2020] WTLR 615
JUDGMENT CHIEF MASTER MARSH: [1] The claimant (‘LCF’), acting by its Administrators, seeks an order for the removal of the Defendant (‘GST’) as a trustee and for the replacement of GST by the Joint Administrators of LCF or by another trustee, or trustees, as the court may think fit. Background [2] LCF operated on the …
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Kingsley & anr v Kingsley [2020] WTLR 593
JUDGMENT MANN J: Introduction [1] Until his death on 27th June 2015 Roger and Sally Kingsley (who were brother and sister) farmed land at Lodge Farm, Cottered, Nr Buntingford, Hertfordshire in partnership. The principal land on which they farmed (which is the land in relation to which this appeal arises) was owned by them beneficially …
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Jeffreys & ors v Scruton & ors [2020] WTLR 575
JUDGMENT HHJ HALLIWELL: Introduction [1] The claimants are the personal representatives and trustees of the will dated 27 October 2009 (the Will) of the late Laura Jeffreys (Laura). By these proceedings, they seek an order determining whether their power, in the Will, to appoint additional beneficiaries is exercisable. If not, Laura’s residuary estate is held …
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Re JBN [2020] WTLR 563
JUDGMENT HHJ MARIN: [1] On 22 November 2017, the Public Guardian applied to the court to revoke a lasting power of attorney for property and affairs (‘the LPA’) made two years earlier by JN, a gentleman who was then 78 years old. JN had appointed his son DN as his attorney. [2] The application was …
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Horsford v Horsford [2020] WTLR 519
JUDGMENT ROSEN QC: (1) Introduction: [1] The Claimant, familiarly known as Marian, is now 88 years old. She married Davis Horsford in 1954 and they had three children, Helen (now Mrs Blunn) born in 1957, Elizabeth (Liz, now Mrs Koufou) in 1960 and the Defendant Peter (now married to Gail) in 1964. Marian and Davis …
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