Lane v Lane & ors [2024] WTLR 615
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2024 #195The claims concerned the estate of Monica Lane (the deceased), who died on 8 May 2019. The deceased had three children, David, Susan (the first defendant) and Peter, the last of whom predeceased her leaving two children, the second and third defendants. David died on 17 January 2021 and Karen (the claimant) was David’s widow and personal representative of his estate.
The deceased and David formed a trading farming partnership, embodied in a 12 October 2002 partnership agreement. That agreement provided that the partnership would dissolve on, among other things, permanent incapacit...
Kousouros v O’Halloran & anr [2014] EWHC 2294 (Ch)
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2015 #151The claimant (K) and second defendant (A) are brother and sister. They are the children of George Kousouros (D) who died in Cyprus in March 2007 leaving a large house in Islington (the property) where he had lived with K prior to returning to Cyprus in 2000 and which also provided a rental income. According to K, who still lives there and takes the rental income, D transferred the property to him in 2001 on terms which included a payment to A of £50,000 and pursuant on the oral terms his parents executed a deed of transfer of the registered title to the property in form TR1 which A was a...