Mesher v Mesher and Hall (Note)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1980
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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55 cases
  • Clutton v Clutton
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 October 1990
    ...whereby the sale of the matrimonial home is postponed until the youngest child of the family is 18, or some other age, is usually known as a Mesher order. An order whereby the sale is postponed until the wife dies, remarries or cohabits with another man, is usually known as a Martin order. ......
  • Curling v The Law Society
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 1984
    ...in issue the wife's interest in the property. Furthermore, in the ancillary proceedings the wife successfully stopped the husband obtaining a Mesher order, (see Mesher v. Mesher (1980) 1 All E R 126) which would or might have postponed the sale of the house and her right to obtain her share......
  • Jones v Kernott
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 May 2010
    ...were older when the respondent no longer needed the property as a home for herself and the children is consistent with cases such as Mesher v Mesher [1980] 1 All ER 126n, when the courts allowed a wife with young children to live in a jointly owned property thereby postponing the realisati......
  • Alicea Helen Birch v James William Hamilton Birch
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 2015
    ...is, into rather a different type of property adjustment order. He said (although no doubt not precisely so) that it would become more like a Mesher order (see Mesher v Mesher (1973) [1980] 1 All ER 126n). 19 In the court below, the argument for the Wife was that the undertakings in this cas......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill How Judges Decide Cases: Reading, Writing and Analysing Judgments. 2nd Edition Contents
    • 29 August 2018
    ...ER 635, (1984) 128 SJ 317, HL 167 Meek v City of Birmingham District Council [1987] IRLR 250, CA 91 Mesher v Mesher and Hall (Note) [1980] 1 All ER 126, CA 204 Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Hett, Stubbs & Kemp (a firm) [1979] Ch 384, [1978] 3 WLR 167, [1978] 3 All ER 571, ChD 208, 209 Miliang......
  • Using Law Reports
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill How Judges Decide Cases: Reading, Writing and Analysing Judgments. 2nd Edition Contents
    • 29 August 2018
    ...from the parent journal itself, as has the London Times . But highly specialised 13 See e.g. Mesher v Mesher and Hall (Note) [1980] 1 All ER 126. law reports with editors drawn from practice in the areas of professional negligence, building, family law, patent cases, company law, immigratio......
  • The Division of Marital Assets Following Divorce
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Law and Society No. 25-3, September 1998
    • 1 September 1998
    ...Martin v. Martin [1978] Fam 12 [1977] 3 All E.R. 762 (protection of life-interest in residentialproperty).65 Mesher v. Mesher & Hall [1980] 1 All E.R. 126n, C.A. (creating life interest in housing assetuntil children lose minority).66 Smith v. McInerney [1994] 2 Family Law Rev. 1077 (order ......

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