The Honourable Mrs Justice Icolin M. Reid.

Family law - Application for legal guardianship of a minor - The Children (Guardianship and Custody) Act ss. 4, 8, 14(1), 20 - Mother of child was a minor - Father convicted of sexual abuse of mother - Whether parens patriae jurisdiction is to be exercised where both parents are alive - Whether the court has authority to disregard a parent’s objection in granting the application – Child in need of care and protection.

Probate and administration -  Intestacy - Application for directions - Entitlement to apply for a grant of administration – Rule 68.28 – Notice to beneficiaries under rule 68.21 - Executor de son tort – Whether acts carried out in the interest of the estate – Intermeddling in the estate by executor de son tort – Whether accounting is necessary.

Division of matrimonial property - Property (Rights of Spouses) Act,  sections 2, 6,

7, 13 and 14 - The family home - Other matrimonial properties – Whether wife is

Entitled to a share of the other matrimonial properties – Whether wife is entitled

To part of the business -  How to calculate wife’s interest in business which has been Sold

Administration of estate - Probate - Administration with will annexed - Whether the Court has the power to clarify vary or alter a previous Court order of a judge of concurrent jurisdiction which has been perfected - Error of omission in previously made order – Rule 42.10(1) - Intention of the Court in previous order - Circumstances associated with the application – Substantial delay in administration of deceased's estate - Interpretation of the words 'permitted to proceed' - Ordinary meaning of word/phrase - Removal and substitution of personal representative – Rule 68.61- Whether to clear

Husband and wife - Claim for entitlement to property - Property (Rights of Spouses) Act S. 2, 6, 7, 13 and 14 - Whether the property was the family home - Ownership test/requirement - Residence test - Applicability of section 14 of the Property (Rights of Spouses) Act.

Real property  - Application for beneficial interest in property - Equitable remedies - Constructive trust - Proprietary estoppel - How equity to be satisfied - What effect does the deceased's Will have on the claimant's beneficial interest in the property 

Husband and wife purchased property – Property (Rights of Spouses) Act -
Adverse possession - Whether the property is the family home – Whether the
property is matrimonial property – Whether it would be unjust to give each spouse
a 50% share in the property