Sahota v Sohal & ors [2023] WTLR 687

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2023 #191

Mr Sahota issued a Part 8 claim to enforce a charging order over Mr Rajan Sohal’s interest in a property known as 31 Windsor Road. There were three deeds in respect of the subject properties, dated 5 October 2012, 7 August 2015 and 17 May 2019, purporting to grant Pooja Sohal, Mr Sohal’s wife, and Veena Sohal, Mr Sohal’s mother, interests in 31 Windsor Road. These deeds, if valid and effective, would have reduced the equity in 31 Windsor Road to the extent that there was unlikely to be any equity to satisfy Mr Sahota’s charging order. Mr Sahota challenged the three deeds on the basis tha...

The Law Society v Dua & anr [2021] WTLR 1469

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2021 #185

Between 2011 and 2013, the claimant obtained multiple charging orders in respect of five properties registered in the joint names of Mr and Mrs Dua. The Duas occupied four of the properties as a single residence, known together as ‘Fulmer House’. The other was a separate property known as 49 Sudbury Avenue.

The Duas had purchased 49 Sudbury Avenue in 1987 and occupied it as their family home until 2004. The purchase had been funded by a mortgage and the Duas’ evidence was that Mr Dua alone had made the mortgage payments. In 1992/93 and 1995, there were two major extensions to 49 S...