The Oldest Trick in Equity [Part 2/5]
The company may not hold the land. So let it not hold the land. Four hundred years ago the law worked out how.
Read MoreThe company may not hold the land. So let it not hold the land. Four hundred years ago the law worked out how.
Read MoreA man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.
Read MoreA liquidator's letter, a frozen account, and a bank that helped itself to the money anyway — from London to Kuala Lumpur, the law draws a line
Read MoreA bank searched the title, gave a loan against what it saw, and lost the lot. There was no forger anywhere in this story.
Read MoreMalaysia gives the true owner his land back. The duped buyer gets nothing — until the Land Registry was made to pay.
Read MoreTen agents. One identical email. A single question that no genuine owner ever needs to ask — and it saved a $900,000 block of land. [Part-2 of Land Scams]
Read MoreA wife forged her husband's signature. The farm passed to strangers. The Privy Council let them keep it — and half the Torrens world still would.
Read MoreA judge reproduced a lawyer’s submissions almost word for word. Two Commonwealth traditions have quietly answered why that matters.
Read MoreOne dreadful word on a front page. One careful court. How “allegedly” failed to save a newspaper.
Read MoreOne judgment was ninety-four per cent copy-paste. How the keyboard killed judicial thought — and how to revive it.
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