Cowcher v Cowcher
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Family Division |
| Date | 1972 |
| Year | 1972 |
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McKenzie (Marguerite) and Anthony McKenzie
...Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence by Justice Story, 1920 (3 rd English Ed) p 13 citing Selden's Table Talk). 11 8. Bagnall J. in Cowcher v Cowcher [1972] 1 All ER 943, 948 d–e observed, in less picturesque language but equally to the point: In any individual case the application of thes......
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Filling the Gaps Between Colonial Legal Heritage and Prevailing Local Customs in Family Relations: the Place of Secret Trust
...v Oxfordshire County Council and another, exparte Sunningwell Parish Council (1993) 3 All ER. 385, 399; See further Cowcher v Cowcher [1972] 1 W.L.R. 425,430; [1972] 1 All E.R. 943 (Fam. Division) where Bagnall J., made his now famous statement: in any individual case the application of the......
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UNCERTAINTY IN PRIVATE LAW: RHETORICAL DEVICE OR SUBSTANTIVE LEGAL ARGUMENT?
...Modern Law: An Exercise in Taxonomy' (1996) 26(1) University of Western Australia Law Review 1, 97 ('Equity in the Modern Law'). (35) [1972] 1 WLR 425, (36) Birks, 'Equity in the Modern Law' (n 34) 23. See also Peter Birks, 'Annual Miegunyah Lecture: Equity, Conscience, and Unjust Enrichmen......
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...to the blind acceptance of inflexible hard and fast rules’ (at [28]). Reiterating Bagnall J”s iconic statement in Cowcher v Cowcher[1972] 1 WLR 425 at 430 that ‘[t]his does not mean that equity is past childbearing; simply that its progeny must be legitimate — by precedent out of principle’......
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Equity and Trusts
...[2017] 5 SLR 529 at [15]. 26 [2016] 3 SLR 1222. 27 Tan Yok Koon v Tan Choo Suan [2017] 1 SLR 654 at [142]. 28 [2008] 2 SLR(R) 108. 29 [1972] 1 WLR 425. 30 Cowcher v Cowcher [1972] 1 WLR 425 at 431. 31 Su Emmanuel v Emmanuel Priya Ethel Anne [2016] 3 SLR 1222 at [105]. 32 See, eg, Laskar v L......
