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Ilott v Mitson & ors [2014] EWHC 542 (Fam)
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | May 2014 #139This was an appeal against quantum in an application under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. The deceased was called Melita Jackson and the appellant was her estranged daughter.
The proceedings had a protracted history. There was an initial hearing of the claim in front of District Judge Million on 7 August 2007. He found as facts that the appellant and her husband and family lived modestly in a housing association house. They were heavily dependent on state benefits. The appellant did not work and her husbands income was small. The family’s ...
Quantum: Maximising damages in brain injury cases
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Quantum: Periodical payments to a foreign jurisdiction
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Claridge, Re The Trustee In Bankruptcy of [2011] EWHC 2047 (Ch)
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | December 2011 #115Mr and Mrs C lived together with their family in the property that they had bought and owned jointly. Mr C went bankrupt for the first time in 1996. Mr C’s trustee in bankruptcy sold his half share of the property to Mrs C for £8,000 in 1998 and thereafter Mrs C owned the full beneficial interest in the property, subject to the original mortgage. In 2002 the property was remortgaged. The funds derived paid for the repayment of the original mortgage, the costs of remortgaging, £2,000 was used to pay off a personal debt of Mrs C and the remainder was used to renovate the propert...
Quantum: Drafting a schedule in a serious clinical negligence case
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Quantum: Minimising the value of special damages claims
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