Glory Annen Clibbery

Glory Annen Clibbery (born September 5, 1952) is a Canadian actress, who is well known for her involvement in a landmark Family Law case in London, "Allan v. Clibbery".Cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/30/nivan30.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/30/ixhome.html|title= Tycoon wins right to evict mistress|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=London Telegraph|year=2004|author=Joshua Rozenberg|language=English]

Career

Clibbery was born in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. She attended the "Victoria Composite Highschool of Performing Arts" in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and at age 17, she emigrated to England to further her education at "Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art" graduating in 1976. She remained based in England but worked around the world as she pursued an acting career. She made her first movie, "Cruel Passion", in 1974, at age 22. She has worked in several films, the most notable being the Australian production "Felicity". Her last film work was "True Files" filmed primarily in Singapore and completed in 2000. She recently was interviewed in Hollywood for the television documentary series "Not Quite Hollywood" about the Australian film industry. She did some radio and voice work including dubbing Anat Atzmon 'Nili' in the feature film Lemon Popsicle. She also appeared in several English television series in the 1970s and had leading roles in the theatre, including creating the role of Deborah Solomon in the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago in London's West End. She was featured on television in many commercials and began working as a commercial casting director in 1982. She is also a cartoonist, artist and writer. She met Ivan Allan, one of the top horse trainers in the world at a cocktail party in December 1985. In 2002 the High Court of Appeal upheld a 'freedom of speech' verdict for her that was made by Justice Mumby in the Royal Courts of Justice called 'Clibbery v. Allan' Mr. Allan appealed (attempting to get top billing) as 'Allan v. Clibbery'. Whoever comes first, their names are now joined forever in English legal history as no legal marriage could do. Glory has been heard to quip that the top ranking international horse trainer Ivan William Allan "Called me a sexual servant after 15 years of abstinence, mine!" He currently owes her circa £580,000 in costs for cases he brought against her and lost in the English Court system. She advises any lawyers he hires, to collect their fees up front.

Controversy

Clibbery was involved with Allan for over 15 years,Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050818/ai_n14922367|title=Happy ever after? I don't think so...|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The London Independent|year=2005|author=Yvonne Roberts|language=English] and after their relationship ended, Allan sought an injunction in June 2002, to prevent Clibbery from disclosing details about their affair.Cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article410532.ece|title=Fathers winning battle to have custody hearings in public|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The Times Newspapers Ltd.|year=2005|author=Frances Gibb|language=English] Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020131/ai_n9672448|title=Mistress wins right to lift lid on ex-lover|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The London Independent|year=2003|author=Robert Verkaik - Legal Affairs Correspondent|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.hrothgar.co.uk/YAWS/reps/45.htm|title=Allan v Clibbery (2002) - Judgement|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=Royal Courts of Justice, London/Hrothgar Publishing|year=2002|author=Royal Courts of Justice, London|language=English] Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1791147.stm|title=Millionaire fails to silence ex-mistress|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=BBC News|year=2002|author=BBC News|language=English] The injunction was rejected,Cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/31/nivan31.xml|title= Judges' ruling allows Ivan Allan's mistress to publish court secrets |accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=London Telegraph|year=2002|author=Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor|language=English] Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030719/ai_n12700646|title=Millionaire's ex-lover wins reprieve from eviction|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The London Independent|year=2003|author=Maxine Frith|language=English] as was as a subsequent appeal. Allan previously won a possession order and Clibbery moved from the flat they had shared in Piccadilly, London. The stress of the litigation destroyed Glory's health and she retreated to the second home they shared where her Mother and her Grandmother lived. Her Grandmother died in her room at the house at the age of 91 in 1998. Her 78 year old mother cared for and maintained the house for 18 years. A violent eviction was carried out. Glory's mother was brutally assaulted by men acting on Ivan Allan's behalf. Cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article463321.ece|title=Mistress ousted in battle over £1.7m mansion|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The Times Newspapers Ltd.|year=2004|author=Nicola Woolcock|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article845142.ece|title=Ex-mistress and mother saved from eviction|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The Times Newspapers Ltd.|year=2003|author=Stefanie Marsh|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lawinaction/index_20030801.shtml|title=Glory Ann Clibbery|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=BBC Radio 4 - Law in Action|year=2003|author=BBC|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4466676,00.html|title=The common-law wife myth|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The Guardian Unlimited|year=2002|author=Clare Dyer|language=English] Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040910/ai_n12798152|title=Millionaire's ex-mistress evicted from pounds 1.7 m house|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=The London Independent|year=2004|author=The London Independent|language=English] Clibbery was successfully represented by James Stewart, a Solicitor in London who handles high-profile cases, and by Andrew Monson and in the appeal also by James Price QC.Cite web|url=http://www.5rb.co.uk/Members/casedetails.asp?member=17&case=16|title=Clibbery v Allan|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 30|publisher=5 Raymond Buildings|year=2007|author=5 Raymond Buildings|language=English] In September 2004, she was evicted from Allan's house by sworn in for the day bailiffs using a bogus court order signed by a previous Lord Chancellor who apparently didn't know how to spell his own name. Mr. Allan then paid one of his publicists to say he was as ruthless as a notorious Britain based gangster. 'There's none so queer as folk!' [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040910/ai_n12798152 Millionaire's ex-mistress evicted from pounds 1.7 m house | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ]

This case caught Public attention because of the unaccountability of the Family Court system. It was Miss Clibbery's belief that this was Un-English and that all Courts in a Democratic Society should be open. 'Justice has to be seen to be done'. "The secrecy of the Family Court is still jealously guarded by Officers of the Court as a 'financial killing field' from the highest to the lowest levels of English society. They claim the secrecy is to allow litigants to be honest about their financial statements but that is nonsense. Litigants will either be honest or hide assets. In the Family Court Case it was argued by Mr. Allan that he had a high sex drive and Miss Clibbery was not his partner but rather paid by him to be available to him for sexual favours. Miss Clibbery countered by putting medical records into Court to prove he had been having problems sustaining an erection as far back as 1991. She pointed out that none of the women he claimed were his "Mistresses" around the world provided any evidence to back up his claim that Miss Clibbery was just one of many women he kept as "cheque book relationships" In a later case approximately £200,000 of receipts were filed in court by Miss Clibbery for money she and her mother spent helping to maintain Mr. Allan's properties in England. A Judge in that case said that he would not accept anything Mr. Allan said that was not supported by other evidence.

"If it became generally known how the Family Court operates, there would be less divorces or less marriages, both bad for business." says Miss Clibbery.

"The Family Court is like a private club, it's legal members so interconnected that the Public is in a 'lottery of choice' that can lead them to financial disaster or worse in a 'secret' court. Whatever is said there, cannot be challenged in the light of day, where it might be revealed as untruth. One of the great secrets 'like love that dare not speak it's name' is cases can be pointed at certain Judges that might be inclined to be 'sympathetic' in a case. Part of the English Old Boy favors network." Glory Anne Clibbery believes that happened in her Family Court Case and that just maybe, because of the trial of a Former Federal Court Judge in Australia and an ongoing investigation regarding this Judge and one of Ivan Allan's witnesses in the Family Court, a senior Sydney Solicitor, 'the truth may out' eventually. She isn't 'holding her breath' but Glory is not through fighting. "All I want now is an independent organization the public can complain to regarding officers of the court, that has some power to right matters when something goes wrong because at the moment self regulation is none."

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* [http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Glory_Annen/1157522 Glory Annen] at Hollywood.com
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1860/Glory-Annen Glory Annen] at the "New York Times" website