Puttick v Attorney General

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1979
Year1979
CourtFamily Division
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20 cases
  • JJ v PJ
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 10 February 2017
    ...proving the acquisition of an habitual residence in a new environment. The decision of Sir George Baker P in Puttick v. Attorney General [1980] Fam 1 clearly establishes that a fugitive from foreign justice will not acquire habitual residence in this jurisdiction simply by reliance on a te......
  • Mark v Mark
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 30 June 2005
    ...to what Lord Westbury described as a person's civil status for the purpose of determining various rights in private law. 10 In Puttick v Attorney-General [1980] Fam 1 the petitioner had been permitted to enter the United Kingdom. She sought a declaration that a marriage which she had celeb......
  • Mark v Mark
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 April 2006
    ...operated to prevent her acquiring that domicile. 28 That seemingly was the effect of the decision of Sir George Baker P in Puttick v A.G. (1980) Fam 1. The President had refused relief to a notorious German criminal, named Astrid Proll, on the ground that since she was a criminal on the run......
  • Cannon v Cannon
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 October 2004
    ...a new environment and proving the acquisition of an habitual residence in a new environment. The decision of Sir George Baker P in Puttick v. Attorney General [1980] Fam 1 clearly establishes that a fugitive from foreign justice will not acquire habitual residence in this jurisdiction simp......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Nullity
    • Jamaica
    • Family Law in Jamaica
    • 18 August 2018
    ...jurisdictions, following the amendments to the English 66. (1977) 3 Fam LR 11.67. (1989) 13 Fam LR 444.68. (1986) 11 Fam LR 99.69. [1980) Fam 1. Nullity 51legislation, the word fraud has been completely omitted. This would make seeing how case law has developed. This has not yet been consid......
  • TRICKED INTO MARRIAGE.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 42 No. 1, August 2018
    • 1 August 2018
    ...161 ER 665. (92) Lee (n 9) 271 [122]. (93) United States v Rubenstein, 151 F 2d 915, 919 (2nd Cir, 1945). (94) See, eg, Puttick v A-G [1980] Fam 1 ('Puttick'); Vervaeke (n 31); Martens v Martens [1952] 3 SA 771 (Local Division). (95) R v Cahill [1978] 2 NSWLR 453. (96) Marriage Act 1961 (Ct......
  • The Requisite Intention for the Acquisition of Domicile of Choice: Permanent or Indefinite – A Comparative Perspective
    • United Kingdom
    • African Journal of International and Comparative Law No. , October 2013
    • 1 October 2013
    ...in the country where domicile is sought, in accordance with the laws of that country. Puttick v Attorney-General4242In Puttick v Att. Gen. [1980] Fam 1, the petitioner, who had entered the UK with an invalid passport, was barred from acquiring a domicile of choice even though the matter rel......

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