Re K (Deceased)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1985
Year1985
CourtChancery Division
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11 cases
  • Dunbar v Plant
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 July 1997
    ...Plant was therefore entitled to an equal half share in the proceeds as tenant in common. (This concession was correctly made: See Re K [1985] Ch 85 at 100 F-H). There is no dispute about the use of the proceeds of the General Accident Policy to pay off the mortgage for the benefit of both ......
  • Cawley v Lillis
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 6 December 2011
    ...LAW OF REAL PROPERTY 7ED 2008 PARA 13.049 RASMANIS v JUREWITSCH 1970 1 NSWR 650 70 SRNSW 407 FORFEITURE ACT 1982 (UK) K (DECEASED), IN RE 1985 CH 85 1985 2 WLR 262 1985 1 AER 403 LAW OF PROPERTY ACT 1925 (UK) WYLIE IRISH LAND LAW 4ED 2010 462 DUNBAR v PLANT 1998 CH 412 1997 3 WLR 1261 1997 ......
  • Re Murphy (Deceased)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 16 April 2003
    ...and it is actually contrary to the words used by Hamilton LJ in In re Hall [1914] P.1, 7." 7 A similar approach was taken by Vinelott J in Re K, decd [1985] Ch 85,where a wife had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her husband. In that case relief was granted to the wife under s.2(2) of ......
  • Ian Robert Henderson v June Wilcox and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 3 December 2015
    ...of relief should be upheld. 14 The Court of Appeal cast no doubt on these conclusions. At p418A Mummery LJ said (referring to Re K [1985] Ch 85 at p100) that it had been rightly conceded that the effect of the forfeiture rule in the case of the house was to sever the joint tenancy so that t......
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1 books & journal articles
  • High Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 60-3, August 1996
    • 1 August 1996
    ...be so modified',Section 2(5) provides for the possibility of the rule not being applied topart of the property.Itwas held in Re K deceased[1985]Ch 85 that thispower vested in the court merely identifies a particular way in which thecourt may modify the rule and does not detract from the cou......

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