Succession Law in UK Law

  • Lee Victor Addlesee (and the others listed in the Schedule annexed to the Amended Claim Form) v Dentons Europe LLP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 October 2019
    ... ... It is property which no one claims — property at large — there is no succession. The Crown does not claim it by succession at all, but because there is no succession.” ... 69 I should, perhaps, ... ...
  • Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 October 2010
    ... ... It contained a choice of law clause that provided that the effects of their marriage, including the laws of matrimonial property and succession, were to be subject to the law of the Federal Republic of Germany. The main part of the agreement provided first for separation of property. In ... ...
  • Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
    • House of Lords
    • 21 June 2004
    ... ... death of a protected tenant of a dwelling-house his or her surviving spouse, if then living in the house, becomes a statutory tenant by succession. But marriage is not essential for this purpose. A person who was living with the original tenant 'as his or her wife or husband' is treated as the ... ...
  • Lipkin Gorman (A Firm)(Original Appellants and Cross-Respondents) v Karpnale Ltd (Formerly Playboy Club of London Ltd) (Original Respondents and Cross-Appellants)
    • House of Lords
    • 06 June 1991
    ... ... (Judicature Act 1908, section 94B (as amended)), and in Western Australia (see Western Australia Law Reform (Property, Perpetuities and Succession) Act 1962, section 24, and Western Australia Trustee Act 1962, section 65(8)), and it has been judicially recognised by the Supreme Court of Victoria ... ...
  • Macmillan Inc. v Bishopsgate Investment Trust Plc (No. 3)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 November 1995
    ... ... Is it for example about the formal validity of a marriage? Or intestate succession to movable property? Or interpretation of a contract? ... 4 The second stage is to select the rule of Conflict of Laws which lays down a connecting ... ...
  • Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 October 1999
    ... ... 2 By section 13 of the Rent Act 1965 rights of succession were also given to the widow and members of the family of the first person benefitting from the protection ... 3 The Rent Act 1977 consolidated ... ...
  • O'Kelly v Trusthouse Forte Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 July 1983
    ... ... In our judgment, the mere assertion by the Industrial Tribunal that it was a succession of contracts for services entered into by independent contractors cannot stand as good in law in the absence of any reason for that conclusion ... ...
  • R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 March 1999
    ... ... to Article 39(2) of the Vienna Convention, was not transferred to the Federal Republic of Germany by the international law of state succession ... 260 Counsel for Senator Pinochet and for Chile relied on the following passage in the judgment of the constitutional court: "For the ... ...
  • Vervaeke (formerly Messina) v Smith
    • House of Lords
    • 07 April 1982
    ... ... bound in matrimony by the English marriage; and the appellant relies on the Belgian judgment as effectively declared to the English law of succession that she was not ... 44 My noble and learned friend on the Woolsack bases his judgment partly on res judicata arising from the Ormrod judgment; ... ...
  • Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Queensland) v Livingston
    • Privy Council
    • 1964
    ... ... 7 ... VISCOUNT RADCLIFFE , LORD REID , LORD EVERSHED , LORD PEARCE and LORD UPJOHN ... Australia - Queensland - Revenue - Succession and administration duties - Real and personal property in Queensland of deceased testator - Widow a beneficiary - Death of widow before ... ...
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