Kousouros v O’Halloran & anr [2014] EWHC 2294 (Ch)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2015 #151

The claimant (K) and second defendant (A) are brother and sister. They are the children of George Kousouros (D) who died in Cyprus in March 2007 leaving a large house in Islington (the property) where he had lived with K prior to returning to Cyprus in 2000 and which also provided a rental income. According to K, who still lives there and takes the rental income, D transferred the property to him in 2001 on terms which included a payment to A of £50,000 and pursuant on the oral terms his parents executed a deed of transfer of the registered title to the property in form TR1 which A was a...

Privilege: Secret fights

In the second of two articles, Davinia Brennan explores a recent decision from the Irish High Court on litigation privilege ‘This is an important decision, which clarifies that the protection afforded to documents by litigation privilege will not extend beyond the particular legal proceedings for which they were prepared, or closely related actions.’ Part 1: …
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