Trust disputes

19 Apr 2024

Collas Crill's private client team strengthened by appointment

Collas Crill's Private Client and Trusts team has been strengthened by the return of Bonnie McPartland as Of Counsel.Bonnie joined Collas Crill in 2016 and during her seven-year tenure with the firm developed a strong reputation in both non-contentious a...

17 Jan 2024

Ben Havard appointed Chair of STEP's Contentious Trusts and Estates SIG

Partner Ben Havard has been appointed Chair of STEP’s Contentious Trusts and Estates special interest group (SIG). The SIGs provide opportunities for professionals to connect and advance their area of practice through an international forum of support, e...

2 Aug 2023

Reports Legal offshore report

Reports Legal has published its latest Offshore Report which focuses on Jersey. In it Editor Dominic Carman interviews the managing partners of Jersey's elite law firms to discover how they are rising above the current economic challenges to deliver grow...

26 Jun 2023

Collas Crill makes STEP shortlist

Collas Crill has been shortlisted for the Contentious Trusts and Estates Team of the year (mid-size) and the Private Client Legal Team of the Year (mid-size) as the STEP Private Client Awards 2023. The STEP Private Client Awards are seen as the hallmark...

18 Jan 2023

Double-edged sword

On 13 October 2022, the UK Privy Council handed down one of the most significant decisions of the past decade for the trusts industry in common-law jurisdictions in relation to Halabi (Appellant) v Equity Trust (Jersey) Ltd (Respondent) in re the ZII Tru...

28 Nov 2022

Trust law arbitration

The current position in England and Wales The current prevailing opinion is that arbitration is not readily available as a tool in trusts disputes under the law of England and Wales. Indeed this has explicitly been stated to be the case by the Law Commis...

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