SYKES v ABBEY [1995-96] 1 GLR 81-90

Husband and wife—Property—Acquisition from earnings of wife—Proof—Strict proof of transactions between businessmen inapplicable to spouses—Construction of house with funds provided by wife on land registered in name of husband—Failure of wife to give detailed cash contribution given to husband for construction of house—Whether failure fatal to claim—Finding by trial judge that house funded by wife with intention that it be her sole property amply supported by evidence—Whether Court of Appeal justified in reversing decision on ground of wife’s failure to specify payments to different categories of workers who built house.