The Weekly Law Reports
[2013] 3 WLR 1
Supreme Court
Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd and others
[2013] UKSC 34
[On appeal from Prest v Prest]
2013 March 5,
6;
June 12
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Mance, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption JJSC, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Husband and wife— Financial relief— Transfer of property— Properties held by companies controlled by husband— Wife alleging that properties belonging beneficially to husband— Husband and companies failing to comply with orders for disclosure— Husband ordered to transfer properties to wife or to cause them to be so transferred— Whether property to which husband “entitled”— Whether conditions for piercing companies’ corporate veils established— Whether court entitled to draw adverse inferences as to beneficial ownership of properties— Whether jurisdiction to order husband to transfer properties held by companies to wife—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 24(1)(a)