Michael Cronshaw

Michael has a broadly based family law and general civil law practice. He is thus able to provide advice on the increasing number of cases that involve disparate strands of law.

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1993 Middle Temple call
MA (Oxon), MSc (LSE), Dip Law (City)
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Degree/University
MA (Oxon), MSc (LSE), Dip Law (City)
Memberships

FLBA, SEC. He has completed 6 years with  Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Standards Board, and has recently been appointed to the Standards Committee.

Areas of Practice
Family (all areas including Divorce and Children)
Adoption
Child Care
Inheritance and Family Provision
Consumer Law
General Common Law
Professional Negligence
Torts
Boundaries
Easements
Employment
Equity and Trusts
General Commercial & Contract (including Sale of Goods)
Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Harassment Law
Landlord and Tenant
Personal Injuries
Mortgages
Partnership
Reported Cases
  • Popinder Kaur Dhillon (By Her Litigation Friend) v Yaw Asiedu (2012) (Landlord and Tenant/Adjournment of Final Hearing/Mental Capacity) - [2012] EWCA Civ 1020, [2012] CP Rep 44, Lawtel Case No: AC0133652
  • Re K (Children) (2012) (family/residence/Evidence for final orders) - [2012] EWCA Civ 1306, Lawtel Case Code: AC9401186
  • MGN Ltd v Teresa Horton (2009) (breach of trust/knowing receipt/restitution) - [2009] EWHC 1680 (QB), Lawtel Case Code: AC0121507
  • Re N (A Child) Sub Nom G v A (2009) (family/Schedule 1/trusts) - [2009] 1 FLR 1442, [2009] 1 FCR 606, [2009] Fam Law 389, [2009] 1 WLR 1621, Lawtel Case Code: AC0119723
  • Ford & Anor v Cornelius (2003) (family/civil procedure) - [2003] EWCA Civ 304, Lawtel Case Code: AC9500962
  • Arogol Co Ltd v Sher Rajah (2001) (landlord and tenant/housing) -   [2002] HLR 21, (2001) 98(21) LSG 40, (2001) 82 P & CR DG7, Times, April 13, 2001, Lawtel Case Code: AC9600336
 

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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