This article is an ethnographic exploration of a women’s sharia court in Mumbai, part network such courts run by women qazi (Islamic judges) established across India members Islamic feminist movement called the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (Indian Women’s Movement). Building upon observations adjudication, counselling, and mediation offered cases divorce maintenance woman (judge), claims mad...

In June 2009, at the Transcontinental Trusts conference in Geneva, His Honour Justice David Hayton said that the New Zealand Court of Appeal had got aspects of the law of trusts wrong in its decision in Official Assignee v Wilson [2008] 3 NZLR 45. The Court held that the test for proving a trust was a sham was whether the trustees and settlor had a common intention that the trust was not to be ...