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Originally Posted by pig
He's right though, Denning was an egocentric tosser.
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I'm hardly going to dispute that. Denning's judgements in trusts law are plain comical, you just end up laughing at him sometimes (e.g. Re Weston's Settlements).
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Originally Posted by Denning in Re Weston's Settlements
"The court should not consider merely the financial benefit to the infants or unborn children, but also their educational and social benefit. There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One of these things is to be brought up in this our England, which is still "the envy of less happier lands". I do not believe it is for the benefit of children to be uprooted from England and transported to another country simply to avoid tax….Are they to be wanderers over the face of the earth, moving from this country to that, according to where they can best avoid tax? I cannot believe that to be right. Children are like trees: they grow stronger with firm roots."
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But that doesn't mean that he beat his wife
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