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Exercising the power to grant injunctions

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Published on: 16 August 2016

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Article summary

Family analysis: James Turner QC, barrister at 1 King’s Bench Walk, discusses the Court of Appeal’s decision in Goyal v Goyal and examines whether there is jurisdiction, outside the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973), to order the transfer of a spouse’s interest in a pension annuity policy to the other spouse.

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