The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2017] AC 93
Privy Council
Scatliffe
v
Scatliffe
[on appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)]
[2016] UKPC 36
2016 Nov 17;
Dec 12
Baroness Hale of Richmond DPSC, Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath JJSC
Marriage— Divorce— Financial provision— Identification of assets— “Non-matrimonial property”— Ancillary relief proceedings in British Virgin Islands— Whether judge having properly exercised redistributive powers— Whether open to judge to ignore property inherited by husband as non-matrimonial property— Whether “property”— Whether judge required to consider parties’ beneficial interests under Married Women’s Property Acts—
Married Women’s Property Act 1887 (Revised Laws of British Virgin Islands, 1991 ed, c 275), s 19
—
Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1995 (Acts of British Virgin Islands No 6 of 1995), ss 23(1)(c), 25(1)(a), 26(1)
Practice— Judgment— Duty to give reasons— Court of Appeal giving short ex tempore judgment dismissing appeal— Extent of duty to give reasons where reasoning of judge below adopted— Whether judgment discharging duty