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Supreme Court allows in part appeal against disinherited farmer’s son’s proprietary estoppel claim (Guest v Guest)

Published on: 19 October 2022
Published by LNB News

LNB News 19/10/2022

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Issue Date: 19 October 2022

Published Date: 19 October 2022

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Article summary

The Supreme Court has allowed in part an appeal of a proprietary estoppel claim whereby the parents argued the remedy to pay a lump sum equal to 50% of the market value of their farming business and 40% of the market value of the buildings and land to their son was incorrectly based on the son’s expected inheritance and incorrectly accelerated. The Supreme Court substituted alternate remedies of either putting the farm in a trust such that the son would receive his entitlement on the parents’ deaths or paying reduced compensation to the son in the present to reflect his earlier-than-anticipated receipt. Richard Wilson KC, barrister at Serle Court comments on the decision and the degree of clarity provided on how relief in propriety estoppel claims should be assessed.

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