1 Oct 2021
BLAKE v BLAKE [2021] NZHC 2583
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 2583
- Court
- High Court
Leave to appeal granted only on two narrow legal questions: (1) whether it was wrong to have regard to a key person discount in valuing company shares for the s9A(2) division; and (2) whether the husband's pre-marriage skills and attributes justified a 20% differential; all other grounds lacked sufficient merit or were fact‑specific and leave to appeal was refused. The High Court affirmed valuation on a 100% SCL shareholding, applied Regal Castings to infer an intention to defeat, found JBT underpaid, and held that remedial orders under s18C/s25 could address any diminution in relationship pr…