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...

Akita Holdings v Turks and Caicos Islands [2017] UKPC 7

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2017 #168

Mr H was a ‘belonger’ (a citizen of the Turks and Caicos Islands) and appointed as a government minister in 2003, remaining in government until 2008. There was a policy entitling a belonger to apply for a conditional purchase lease over Crown Land subject to certain conditions which, if met, entitled the belonger to purchase the freehold title at a discounted rate, in this case of 50% of the open market value.

In 2004, Mr H applied for a lease and in setting the sale price the government relied on a 1998 valuation of the land resulting in a discounted price of $75,200. Unknown to ...

Claridge, Re The Trustee In Bankruptcy of [2011] EWHC 2047 (Ch)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | December 2011 #115

Mr and Mrs C lived together with their family in the property that they had bought and owned jointly. Mr C went bankrupt for the first time in 1996. Mr C’s trustee in bankruptcy sold his half share of the property to Mrs C for £8,000 in 1998 and thereafter Mrs C owned the full beneficial interest in the property, subject to the original mortgage. In 2002 the property was remortgaged. The funds derived paid for the repayment of the original mortgage, the costs of remortgaging, £2,000 was used to pay off a personal debt of Mrs C and the remainder was used to renovate the propert...