Cases

Davey v Bailey

Judgment Date: 26 Feb 21

Davey v Bailey [2021] EWHC 445 (Ch) is a significant judgment on the law of deathbed gifts (donationes mortis causa; “DMCs”). A DMC is one of the few ways in which a person can make a valid transfer of property on death without complying with the formalities required by section 9 of the...

(1) Michael Rittson-Thomas (2) Hugo Rittson-Thomas (3) Kim Hughes v Oxfordshire County Council (2019)

Judgment Date: 21 Feb 19

Summary A local authority which had sold land granted to it under the Schools Sites Act 1841 s.2 held the proceeds of sale on trust for the original grantor's descendants. Section 14, which prevented the statutory right of reverter, operated only where the land was continuing to be used for educational purposes...