Lort-Williams v Lort-Williams

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1951
Date1951
CourtCourt of Appeal
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17 cases
  • Brooks v Brooks
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 May 1994
    ...purposes of S 24. The question has however been considered in the case of a spouse's interest under a life insurance policy. In Lort-Williams v Lort-Williams 1951 P 395, a husband had taken out a whole life policy on his life under S 11 of the Married Womens' Property Act 1882 for the benef......
  • M (F) v M (T)
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 22 June 2004
    ...other authorities cited and approved of therein. In this regard he highlighted in particular the case Lort-Williams v. Lort-Williams [1951] 2 All ER 241. Continuing, he said that if this court should find the principles therein enunciated acceptable this should, in his opinion, lead inevita......
  • Brooks v Brooks
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ...[1959] 2 WLR 776; [1959] 2 All ER 266. Dormer v Ward [1901] P 20. Griffiths v Dawson & Co[1993] 2 FCR 515. Lort-Williams v Lort-Williams [1951] P 395; [1951] 2 All ER 241. Marsh v Marsh (1878) 39 LT 107, 545. Worsley v Worsley (1869) LR 1 P & D 648. John Elvidge and Geoffrey Topham for the ......
  • Clayton v Clayton
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 26 February 2015
    ...v van den Brink [2010] NZCA 169; Kennon v Spry, above n 108; Brooks v Brooks [1996] AC 375 (HL) at 391; and Lort-Williams v Lort-Williams [1951] P 395 (CA) at 403 per Denning 138 At [143]. 139 At [143]. 140 Ward v Ward , above n 88, at [25]. 141Ward v Ward, above n 88; see generally Family ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • SECTION 73 CLPA1: ASSURANCE FOR THE SPOUSE AND CHILDREN
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1997, December 1997
    • 1 December 1997
    ...permitted to obtain provision under the IFPA. 39 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s24. 40 [1949] P 77. See also Lort-Williams v Lort-Williams[1951] P 395. Also see Gutbenkian v Gulbenkum[1927] P 237. 41 Cap 353, 1985 Ed. 42 The old s 106 refers to assets acquired by the parties; the amended s 1......
  • The Diffusion of Values among Democracies and Autocracies
    • United Kingdom
    • Global Policy No. 7-4, November 2016
    • 1 November 2016
    ...they diffuse.Emancipative values and value diffusionIn their most general def‌inition, values are ‘conceptions ofthe desirable’(Kluckhohn, 1951, p. 395) and can be held byindividuals and groups. According to Shalom Schwartz,social psychologist and widely cited values researcher, val-ues ‘tr......

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