Scatliffe v Scatliffe

Subject Matter

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)

[2016] UKPC 36; [2017] AC 93; [2017] 2 WLR 106; [2017] 2 FLR 933; [2016] WLR (D) 665; Case details, PC

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

[2016] UKPC 36; [2017] AC 93; [2017] 2 WLR 106; [2017] 2 FLR 933; [2016] WLR (D) 665; Case details, PC