London Legal Walk - 20th May 2013

 

 

3DJB is proud to announce that we have registered a team to participate in the 2013 London Legal Walk on 20 May 2013 to raise funds on behalf of the Free Representation Unit, the Bar Pro Bono Unit and the London Legal Support Trust.


Each of these agencies does a fantastic job in preventing homelessness, resolving debt problems, gaining care for the elderly and disabled and fighting exploitation.

 

Barbara Zeitler, Jessica Brindle, Briony Palmer, Annmarie Harris, Angela Bennett, Ayesha Hasan, Emily Beer, Catherine Piskolti, Mark Jones, Philip Squire, Luke Barnes, Norman Moss, Peter Wilkinson and John Sabido have all signed up for the gruelling challenge through some of the most punishing terrain on earth.

 

The funds raised from the 10km walk around London’s legal district will go towards ensuring that vital free legal services to prevent homelessness, resolving debt problems and gaining care for the elderly are retained. We hope you will feel able show your support to our team and give generously:

 

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=3DrJohnsonsBuildings

 

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Welcome to Three Dr Johnson's Buildings

3 Dr. Johnson’s Buildings is a Barristers’ Chambers which has always enjoyed an excellent reputation in Family and Civil Law.

Established over 50 years ago, we are based in the heart of Temple, facing Temple Church.

At ‘3DJB’ we all pride ourselves on delivering top quality advocacy while always being friendly and approachable. We practise in Courts at all levels throughout the country representing a wide range of individuals and institutions. Our professional Clients range from small High Street Solicitors to large City firms and Local Authorities. Some of our Barristers offer foreign languages and expertise in foreign law.

Our Clerks are well known for their efficiency and helpfulness as well as being easy to get on with. They are keen to listen, and to understand your needs and requirements. Because of this they can then direct you to the Barrister best suited to the task in hand whether regarding the subject matter or because your Client has particular needs.

We believe you will find it easy to establish a productive working relationship with us and that your Clients will feel fully at ease and confident that they are receiving the highest standards of service.

3 Dr. Johnson’s Buildings follows the Bar Standards Board Equality and Diversity Code.

Delivery of Instructions: All instructions, by any method of delivery, must be addressed via the Clerks.

 

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An Englishman abroad

Mark Jones explores the tricky issue of domicile of origin over domicile of choice in Morris v Davies

 

The recent decision of the High Court in the case of Morris v Davies [2011] EWHC 1773 (Ch) emphasised the tenacious nature of a person's domicile of origin and the intensely fact-based approach to considering assertions of substitution of the same by an alternative domicile of choice.

The dispute arose from the administration of the estate of the late Owen Davies, who was born in England on 1 November 1963 and who died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Paris on the 26 November 2008, aged just 45. What happened thereafter informed much of the considerable antipathy in the case and the media interest at the time of the trial, where those close to the deceased agreed to and did conceal the fact of his death and his funeral from his family, with such a degree of success that for several months after both events they remained in complete ignorance.

 

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The Dowry in law

"The Dowry in law" by Miss Suki K Johal,

Barrister at 3 Dr Johnson's Building. Temple. London

In recent years there has been a proliferation of cases in the English courts on the issue of Indian dowries particularly in areas of high Asian population. The Oxford English Dictionary broadly defines dowry as encompassing 'money or property the wife brings with her to the husband's home; the portion given with the wife; a present or gift given by a man to or for his bride'. The Chambers English Dictionary provides 'the property which a woman brings to her husband at marriage; sometimes a gift given to or for a wife at marriage'. These definitions provide that dowry has two constituents- the giving of property to the bride from parents and kin and the giving of jewellery from the in-laws.

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