The Weekly Law Reports
[1991] 1 WLR 1410
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
WEBB
v.
WEBB
[1990 W. No. 2827]
1991 May 10;
23
Judge Paul Baker Q.C. sitting as a High Court judge
Conflict of Laws
— Jurisdiction
— Immovable property
— Purchase of property in France by defendant as holiday home for English plaintiff
— Defendant named as purchaser with funds provided by plaintiff
— Proceedings for transfer of property to plaintiff
— Claim that defendant holding property as trustee
— Whether French courts having exclusive jurisdiction
— Whether proceedings in rem
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Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27), Sch. 1, art. 16(1)
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