Bernard Limbrey

Previous career as an RAF Officer, including 6 years as an Air Traffic Controller.
Former County Councillor and Member of Police Authority.
A trained mediator, Family and Civil, Bernard aims to achieve settlements whenever possible.

 

 

 

Bernard is qualified to accept instructions under the Bar Council Public Access Scheme.

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1980 Middle Temple call
Practising Certificate 1991
Degree/University
Diploma in Personnel Management, University of Aston.
MSc (Administrative Sciences), Cass Business School, City University.
Joint Services Defence College, Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Amnesty
Liberty
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Areas of Practice
Ancillary Relief: Financial Provision and Property Adjustment.
Children: Residence, Contact, Care Proceedings.
Injunctions and Emergency Procedures.
Domestic Violence.
General Common Law Civil, particularly Contract, Consumer Credit and Sale of Goods.
Reported Cases
Woodchester Equipment Leasing Ltd .v. BACFID [1995] CCLR 51, CA. ("agency cannot normally be fixed on a finance house in a consumer hire contract") – Leader : Professor Sir Roy Goode QC.
Outside Interests
Managing the refurbishment of a Grade 2 listed building.
Upkeep and maintenance on a smallholding - small flock of sheep.
 

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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