Kohli v Proles [2019] WTLR 623

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2019 #175

This was an oral renewed application for permission to appeal from an order and judgment of the master, who found that the deceased had died domiciled in England and Wales. The deceased’s domicile of origin was India and he died there. There was no appeal against the statement by the master of the legal principles involved in determining domicile.

The master held that the deceased moved to England in 2002 and carried on a number of businesses there. The tertiary education of his sons was in England. His wife remained in India in a matrimonial home. He did not apply for British cit...

Quaintance v Tandan [2012] EWHC 4416 (Ch)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | November 2014 #144

Mr Quaintance (the defendant) appealed against the decision of HHJ Ellis granted on 24 May 2012. The original decision had been made in a contested application made by Miss Tandan (the claimant) under the Trusts of Land and Trustees Act 1996 for a determination of shares in a property (the property). The outcome of the decision was that the net proceeds of sale following the discharge of the mortgage currently being held by the mortgagee should all be paid to the claimant. Half of these had been paid to the claimant following the decision. The defendant appealed in respect of th...