Joint Tenancy: Equal Shares?
I’m a bit late on this one, but workload has conspired against me. The recent decision in Fowler v Barron addresses the question which was comprehensively dealt with by the House of Lords in Stack v...
View ArticleMortgage Lenders Still Exercise Insufficient Caution
The recent decision of the High Court in HSBC Bank plc v Dyche & Collelldevall [2009] EWHC 2954 (Ch) illustrates that mortgage lenders are, despite cases such as Williams & Glyn’s Bank Ltd v...
View ArticleBeneficial Interests in Jointly Owned Property: Kernott v Jones (Round 3)
The Court of Appeal has delivered its eagerly awaited judgment in the case of Kernott v Jones [2010] EWCA Civ 578. I wrote about the decision of the lower courts here, having been left with a...
View ArticleJones -v- Kernott (Round 4)
It would have been impossible to have allowed today to pass without a short post about the Supreme Court’s judgment in Jones -v- Kernott [2011] UKSC 53 (it is quite possible that I will come back later...
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