CG37871 | Separate settlements: substance of the transaction

The question whether what we now have is a separate settlement cannot be determined by the rigid application of rules. Instead as Lord Wilberforce said in Roome v Edwards, 54TC at 390A. `The question whether a particular set of facts amounts to a settlement should be approached by asking what a person, with knowledge of the legal context of the word under established doctrine and applying this knowledge in a practical and commonsense manner to the facts under examination, would conclude.’