Litigation Letter
Financial Detriment Not Essential
Gillett v Holt and another (CA LSG 23 March)
The complainant spent his working life as farm manager and friend of the first defendant who had made repeated and completely
unambiguous assurances over many years that the complainant would succeed to his farming business. Forty years after their
first meeting the relationship broke down and the complainant sought equitable relief based on proprietary estoppel.