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URGENT
For Marina before RTM of 27 July 2020
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Addendum to File Note for RTM in a rush

3. CONFLICTS IN LPJS’S STATEMENTS AND FORM ES

Additions and clarifications are set out below(after checking again the old divorce papers
leading to the Final Hearing);

 MJC could never work out (when recently reviewing the old documentation) why he
had not aligned LPJS’s statements - that swore the £500k was a loan and the Form Es
and schedules that it was not (ie was a gift). IN FACT, THE INCONSISTENCIES WERE
DELIBERATE :
2

 MJC found a POST IT for himself (when he was writing the note) wrongly filed in his
working papers to the effect that it was best (and most honest) to leave the conflict
glaringly obvious on the face of the documents and hope that the judge
would summons Mr Solheim and Anthony as witnesses. THIS IS IMPORTANT and
anticipated Richard Balchin’s advice.

 Mr Solheim refused to attend (or make a statement for) LPJS’s Final Hearing but MJC
hoped the judge would rope him in to clarify the loan-gift question. LPJS could not
have summonsed him without destroying their relationship (which at that time both
said was forever). It was obvious that Mr Solheim did not want to have any
connection with the £500k or written record of it. MJC asked whether his reluctance
may have been to protect his newly found wealth from his ex-wife. He said, not but
refused to discuss further

 In the event, the judge (Judge Todd) did not have to consider summonsing Mr
Solheim because Mr Balchin and MJC (as LPJS says) “bullied her” into settling!

 The idea leaving the conflict of evidence obvious but unresolved to force Mr Solheim
to appear as a witness was a good one.

 The chronology was as follows:

Source
Date Bundles referred with Bates Numbers
FINAL HEARING 21 st May 2018
MF = for Marina

22 December 2016 Mr Solheim tells LPJS he plans to pay £500k into the front end - top up
nd
section of her Barclays-Woolwich mortgage account to be used by them both
for living expenses. He admits this in his schedule of Earnings and Assets (MF
Bates 059)
Through a convoluted route (involving personal visits to 2 banks eleven miles
away from Nutley Place when he could have used the telephone or on-line
banking) Mr Solheim paid 500K into LPJS’s main mortgage account. This
meant that funds cannot be withdrawn until the mortgage is redeemed (See
MF Bundle Bates No 184). IT WAS A USELESS LOAN although it did reduce
monthly interest on the mortgage.

2 He had forgotten this

Bates Number Bates No084