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CPD Course:
Property Law
in the Domestic
Consumer Context:
Cohabitation, Trusts
and Companies
Presented by
Prof. Steven Gallagher,
Associate Professor of Practice in Law,
Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning),
The Faculty of Law,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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EVT000000320 |
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Intermediate |
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24 February 2021 (Wednesday)
(Amended) |
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English |
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14:30 - 17:45 (Amended)
(Reception starts at 14:00) |
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LSHK 3.0 CPD Points |
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Steven Gallagher was awarded a first class LL.B. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2006. Steven teaches equity and trusts, property law, and digital technology and law. Steven also teaches a course on art, antiquities, cultural heritage and the law. Steven has presented continuing professional development courses for solicitors in Hong Kong on many topics associated with property. Steven’s research interests include equity and the law of trusts, art and cultural heritage law and legal history. He is not a technologist. In 2023 Steven published the first treatise dealing formally and systematically with all the major aspects of, and entitled, Digital Technology and Law.
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This three-hour seminar will provide an introduction and overview of the use of equity to establish and/or vary interests in property purchased as a family home. The seminar will consider how the court may consider beneficial interests in the family home upon divorce. The seminar then considers how unmarried couples may have interests in the family home when the property is held in the couple’s joint names, in the sole name of one of the couple or when neither of the couple have legal title to the property. The seminar considers how express trusts, resulting trusts, constructive trusts, proprietary estoppel and promissory estoppel may affect interests in the family home.
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- Express trusts and ancillary relief;
- Ante-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements;
- Co-ownership of the family home after Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17;
- Varying interests in the family home after Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC 53;
- Establishing an interest in another’s property by way of resulting trust, constructive trust and/or proprietary estoppel;
- Establishing an interest in a property by way of promissory estoppel;
- How to decide on ownership issues when a property is in joint names;
- How to decide on ownership issues when a property is in a single name;
- How to decide on ownership issues when a property is in neither party’s name.
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Telephone: +852 3118 2371 | Facsimile: +852 3118 2372 Postal Address: P.O. Box 9993, General Post Office, Hong Kong |
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