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CLAIM NO F00BN141
FIRST DEFENDANT’S POSITION STATEMENT
For hearing on 18 August 2020
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21 THESE ARE ALL UNTRUE. There is not a single written or oral agreement along the
lines the Claimant now argues.

22 The FD willingly admits that she and the Claimant had - from time to time -
discussed the dream of buying a smallholding together to convert into an
equestrian centre once her children had left home (that is expected to be sometime
after 2022 ). However, there was never any question of the Claimant having a
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financial interest in Nutley Place and no way that he could have honestly
misunderstood the position.

23 On the contrary there are many, mainly mind-numbing emails, WhatsApp messages
and recorded conversations that prove the alleged, recently invented, litigation
supportive TOLATA conversations are a figment of the Claimant’s imagination.

24 For example:

(a) Taped conversation on 27 February 2018
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FD “ well that’s life. I’m not going to have anything either”

Claimant “well that’s where you can take some equity out of your house”

(b) Tape conversation of 5th March 2018
Claimant “I can list my financial obligations and what I have and you can
have that in writing but I nearly think I should be represented
now because I feel, I feel, ----- I am up in court with him not you.
It’s not you and your kids because you basically have the asset of
this house and I have said to you, you’re just going to have to sell
it to get on with it…..

25 The FD decided to rewrite her will in the Spring of 2016 because she had been
unnerved by the Claimant’s behaviour. He had been out of work for months and
showed no interest in finding employment. He was miserable and had flounced off
to rent a house for himself. The FD was worried over who would look after her
children – in the Claimant’s absence - if she died and wanted to put her affairs in
order .
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26 The FD’s will (Exhibit A) – which she retained Core Law to prepare - confirms the
true position;

 The FD explained the precise terms of her will to the Claimant in the autumn of
2016. He had no objections to it. The FD felt that she was being “a bit hard ”
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She told him:

“this is the way it has got to be….. it’s my only asset and it has to pass to the
kids”;

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Again, the Claimant did not express a word of dissent.

8 Hopefully to university
9 At the time the FD first spoke to Core Law, the Claimant expected but had not received any compensation.
Bates Number Bates No093
By asking him to be co-guardian of her children and then effectively evicting him from Nutley Place when they reached the
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age of 18