Successful outcome in an estoppel claim to shares and property
Following a six-day trial, Pépin Aslett has successfully defended a proprietary estoppel claim by a son-in-law that he and his now late wife were entitled to ownership of all shares in the family business on the parents’ retirement. The claim relied on promises first made over two decades ago around the pool during a family holiday in Vietnam.
His Honour Judge Gerald rejected the son-in-law’s evidence and found that no such promises had been made. The court also rejected a separate claim that there were further promises that the son-in-law and the late daughter of the parents were entitled to two industrial units from which the business traded, on the death of the parents.
The outcome of the case has received coverage in the Independent and Daily Mail. The case was also widely reported on during the trial in the Times, Telegraph, Mirror, Independent, Daily Mail, and the Sun.
