Pettitt v Pettitt (1970) and Gissing v Gissing (1971)

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dc.contributor.authorMee, John
dc.contributor.editorMitchell , Charles
dc.contributor.editorMitchell, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-07T16:02:45Z
dc.date.available2024-03-02T11:19:23Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-07T16:02:45Z
dc.date.issued2014-08-07
dc.date.updated2024-03-02T11:19:25Zen
dc.description.abstractThis chapter considers the landmark family property decisions of the House of Lords in Pettitt v. Pettitt [1970] AC 777 and Gissing v. Gissing [1971] AC 886 through the prism of imputed common intention, an idea advanced by Lord Diplock in Pettitt and (on one view) implemented in a different form by him in his speech in Gissing. The conclusion is that the common intention trust analysis, as first put forward in the speech of Lord Diplock in Gissing, did not directly involve the imputation of common intentions. The notion of imputation has, following Stack v. Dowden [2007] 2 AC 432 and Jones v Kernott [2012] 1 AC 776, crept back into the modern law on the common intention trust in respect of the secondary issue of quantification. However, as is argued in the chapter, it seems unnecessary to present the modern approach to quantification in terms of the imputation of a non-existent common intention. The chapter places Pettitt and Gissing in the context of the earlier case law – e.g. looking closely at the overrated ‘imputed common intention’ approach of the minority in Pettitt and its relationship with more overtly discretionary approaches of the Court of Appeal in earlier cases. The chapter also links this analysis to a consideration of the impact of the more recent cases of Stack v. Dowden and Jones v. Kernott.
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dc.identifier.citationMee, J. (2014) 'Pettitt v Pettitt (1970) and Gissing v Gissing (1971)', in Mitchell, C. and Mitchell, P. (eds.) Landmark Cases in Equity. Oxford, England: Hart Publishing.en
dc.identifier.isbn9781849466615
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15647
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherHart Publishingen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/landmark-cases-in-equity-9781849466615/
dc.rights© 2014, the Editors and Contributor. Published by Hart Publishing. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectLand law
dc.subjectLaw of trusts
dc.subjectCohabitation
dc.subjectFamily law
dc.subjectProperty law
dc.subjectFamily property
dc.subjectLegal history
dc.subjectConstructive trusts
dc.subjectImputation
dc.subjectInference
dc.subjectResulting trusts
dc.subjectLegal doctrine
dc.titlePettitt v Pettitt (1970) and Gissing v Gissing (1971)en
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