Prest v Prest

Subject Matter

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, s 24(1)(a)

[2012] EWCA Civ 1395; [2013] 2 AC 415; [2013] 2 WLR 557; [2013] 1 All ER 795; [2013] 2 FLR 576; [2012] WLR (D) 296, CA

[2013] UKSC 34; [2013] 2 AC 415; [2013] 3 WLR 1; [2013] 4 All ER 673; [2013] 2 FLR 732; [2013] WLR (D) 237; Case details, SC(E)

Appellate History

Commentary

Blackstones Criminal Practice 2025
Making of Confiscation Order - Stage Four — Determination of the Available Amount - Corporate Veil E19.56

Blackstones Civil Practice 2023
Contents of a Freezing Injunction - Assets covered by the order 38.17

Facts Open to Proof - Relevant facts 49.3