Dismissal of an oral renewal by a Trustee in Bankruptcy appealing the strike out of a claim under sections 23 and 24 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.
This was the oral renewal hearing (with a cross application) for leave to appeal the strike out of the claim of a trustee in bankruptcy (“Trustee”) under sections 23 and 24 the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (‘MCA’) made by Mr Registrar Jones on 15 March 2016 ([2016] EWHC 538). Mr Registrar Jones struck out the application on the grounds that the 1973 Act created rights which can be pursued only by the spouses themselves and that “the rights do not extend beyond joint lives”.
The Trustee described his claims as ‘novel’, as indeed they were, contradicting the specif…
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