Townsend v Director General, Department of Families, Youth and Community

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Date1999
Year1999
CourtFamily Court (Australia)

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33 cases
  • Cannon v Cannon
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 October 2004
    ...Law Rules. 4637. There can be little doubt that Singer J was much influenced by the recent Australian decisions. From the later case of Townsend he cited the following three paragraphs: - "33 Firstly the notion that the abductor "must establish the degree of settlement which is more than me......
  • B . v O'R
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 15 May 2009
    ...Circuit Court award of maintenance in light of economic downturn - WPP v SRW [2001] 1 ILRM 371, W v R (2006) 35 Fam LR 608, AMS v ALF [1999] FLC 92-852, Frisconi v Frisconi [2009] FAN CA 45, Johansen v Norway [1996] 3 EHRR 979, Payne v Payne [2001] Fam 473, Poel v Poel [1970] 1 WLR 1469, N......
  • M., Re
    • Canada
    • 5 December 2007
    ...of the Community Services v. M. and C. (1998), F.L.C. 92-829 and Director-General of the Families, Youth and Community Care v. Moore (1999), F.L.C. 92-841. [24] The contrary view was taken by the Court of Appeal in Cannon v. Cannon , [2004] EWCA Civ 1330; [2005] 1 F.L.R. 169 (C.A.), on appe......
  • Janet Adams Bostick v Hadley Wendell Bostick
    • Barbados
    • High Court (Barbados)
    • 8 July 2022
    ...contributions to the acquisition, conservation, improvement, “ or otherwise” to the property: see In the Marriage of Browne and Greene [1999] F.L.C. 92–873,86,359. 96 Furthermore, the additions were available for the use and benefit of the family They continue to have use-value to the Wife ......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Family Law Accountants' Update - Assessing Initial Contributions
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 20 May 2011
    ...as with references to "erosion", to be unhelpful. The better approach is that to which this court referred in Pierce & Pierce (1999) FLC 92-844 at ... it is not so much a matter of erosion of contribution but a question of what weight is to be attached, in all the circumstances, to the ......
1 books & journal articles
  • Constitutional Law and the Limits of Discretion in Family Property Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 44-1, March 2016
    • 1 March 2016
    ...compare the explanations in Lee Steere and Lee Steere [1985] FLC 91-626; Aleksovski and Aleksovski [1996] FLC 92-705, Pierce and Pierce [1999] FLC 92-844 and Williams and Williams [2007] FamCA 313. 11 Cf, eg, the guidance given by the majority in Coghlan and Coghlan [2005] FLC 93-220, 79,64......