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David Sheldon

@davidsheldon.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Property law University of Bristol

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David Sheldon @davidsheldon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A date for the land law diaries 26-27th January the UKSC will be hearing the National Iranian Oil case and the meaning to be given to s 53(1)(b) law of property act 1925
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Anyone interested in issues of deaths of people who are homeless or precariously housed, and the ways in which institutions change (using a framework of discursive institutionalism), come along (in person) on Thursday 2 October at 17:15 to my Centre for Death and Society public lecture in Bath.
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David Foster @david-foster.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Trusts fans: CoA decision on LPA 1925, s53(1)(b) today: www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
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Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025. The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...
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2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
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Dr Derek Whayman @whaymandr.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Early thoughts about the motor finance judgment: whaymand.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/j...
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JUDGMENT: The Motor Finance Litigation
On Friday August 1st 2025, the UK Supreme Court handed down judgment in Hopcraft v Close Brothers Ltd [2025] UKSC 33 (and conjoined cases). To some surprise, it overturned the Court of Appeal’s dec…
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Alec Morris @alecmorris1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Pleased that 'Bare Trusts and Private Purpose Powers' is forthcoming in the Conveyancer: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... A clearer understanding of bare trusts & overreaching, reveals a problem re UAs & Quistclose trusts viz. how the powers overreach. I argue they do so as s32 powers of advancement
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Bare Trusts and Private Purpose Powers
<span>Private purpose powers are crucial to the functioning of non-charitable unincorporated associations and <i>Quistclose</i> trusts—both of which concern bar
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David Sheldon @davidsheldon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Cleave & anor v Cleave [2024] EWHC 2492. Failure to transfer land into a trust. Trust clearly intended in a written declaration. Choithram v pagarani applied to constitute trust by a different method than that intended. No difference between land and personal property #trusts #land #equity #law
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David Sheldon @davidsheldon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Mans will written on back of food box is held to be valid. Tbf wills act does not specify what form the writing needs to take... #successionlaw #equity #trusts #law www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov...
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Man’s will written on back of food boxes is valid, UK high court rules
Malcolm Chenery left estate to Diabetes UK charity when he died in 2021, writing will on fish and mince pie boxes
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