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Hart v Burbidge

[2013] EWHC 1628 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division
Year2013
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Presumed undue influence over inter vivos transactions is established by (i) a relationship of trust, confidence, reliance, dependence or vulnerability on one side and ascendancy, domination or control on the other, plus (ii) a transaction calling for explanation, whereupon the burden shifts to the beneficiary to show the transferor's free, independent will; proof of independent advice is one but not the only or necessarily a sufficient way of doing so.

Area of Law

General

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