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- Title
Keeping up with the Jones case: establishing constructive trusts in 'sole legal owner' scenarios.
- Authors
Sloan, Brian
- Abstract
This paper considers the influence of the Supreme Court decision in Jones v Kernott on subsequent cases. It focuses on situations with which Jones was not directly concerned, namely where there is only one legal owner of a home and a non-legal-owning cohabitant seeks to establish that he has an equitable interest in it under a common intention constructive trust. The paper argues that while judges have mostly accepted that Jones is relevant to such sole-owner cases, they have had few opportunities (and taken fewer) to move beyond the restrictive approach of Lloyds Bank plc v Rosset and allow novel outcomes in the light of Jones as yet. It is contended that this state of affairs could ultimately produce a conservative approach that is undesirable for cohabitants who make indirect or non-financial contributions to shared lives, and remain without comprehensive statutory property and financial provision on relationship breakdown.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CONSTRUCTIVE trusts; PROPERTY; GREAT Britain. Supreme Court; LLOYDS Banking Group PLC; PROPERTY law reform; GREAT Britain. Court of Appeal; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Legal Studies, 2015, Vol 35, Issue 2, p226
- ISSN
0261-3875
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lest.12052