Sirpa Elise Alalääkkölä v Paul Anthony Palmer - SC 22/2024

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Summary

Civil Appeal

Result

A Leave to appeal is granted (Alalääkkölä v Palmer [2024] NZCA 24).
B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct in the answers the Court gave to the questions of law before the Court.
9 May 2024__________________________________________________________________A      We answer the questions of law as follows: copyrights are property for purposes of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 and they may be relationship property.
B     The appeal is dismissed.  We direct that the proceeding be remitted to the Family Court to decide the value and distribution or sale of the artworks and copyrights in them.
C     The appellant must pay the respondent costs of $15,000 plus usual disbursements.  We allow for second counsel.                             
6 March 2025

Date of Hearing

24 October 2024

Judges

Ellen France, Williams, Kós, Miller and O'Regan JJ

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