The Law Reports (Family Division)
[1986] Fam 38
[COURT OF APPEAL]
THOMPSON
v.
THOMPSON
1985 Jan. 11;
Feb. 5
Feb. 5
Oliver, Griffiths and Browne-Wilkinson L.JJ.
Husband and Wife
— Property
— Adjustment order
— Variation of order
— Order creating trust for sale
— Sale postponed for period or further order
— Former wife seeking earlier sale of property
— Whether jurisdiction to order sale before specified period
— Whether statutory amendments to legislation having retrospective effect
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Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), ss. 24, 24A (as amended by Matrimonial Homes and Property Act 1981 (c. 24), s. 7)