Property rights and personal relationships: Reflections on reform

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dc.contributor.authorMee, John
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-12T13:55:59Z
dc.date.available2024-04-07T18:58:30Zen
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dc.date.issued2004-06
dc.date.updated2024-04-07T17:58:32Zen
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers the possible reform of the law governing property rights upon the termination of a close personal relationship, taking as its point of departure the Law Commission's Discussion Paper on Home-Sharing (2002). Having considered the reasons for the inconclusive outcome of the Law Commission's project (and the Discussion Paper's comments on the law of trusts), the paper moves on to consider the possible shape of future reform. It examines first the preliminary question of whether possible legislation should focus on unmarried cohabitees or whether a wider range of relationships should be encompassed (with or without a cohabitation requirement), The paper then looks at the form which a legislative scheme might take, examining the possibility of focusing on contributions (along the lines of New South Wales’ legislation) and the Law Society's proposals for a regime based on‘economic advantage and disadvantage’. The experience of the courts in the matrimonial context is considered with a view to extracting relevant lessons. In general, rather defending one particular model for reform, the paper attempts to identify and explore key issues which will be of relevance across a variety of approaches to reform.
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dc.identifier.citationMee, J. (2004) 'Property Rights and Personal Relationships: Reflections on Reform', Legal Studies, 24 (3), pp. 414-450. Published online by Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121X.2004.tb00256.x
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121X.2004.tb00256.x
dc.identifier.eissn1748-121X
dc.identifier.endpage450
dc.identifier.issn0261-3875
dc.identifier.issued3
dc.identifier.journaltitleLegal Studies
dc.identifier.startpage414
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15799
dc.identifier.volume24
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWiley [Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018]
dc.rights© Society of Legal Scholars 2004. This article has been published in a revised form in Legal Studies [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121X.2004.tb00256.x]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectCohabitees
dc.subjectProperty
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectHome-sharing
dc.subjectReform
dc.subjectCivil partnership
dc.titleProperty rights and personal relationships: Reflections on reform
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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