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'Insolvent trust': A misnomer?

'Insolvent trust': A misnomer? Legally, yes. However the Royal Court of Jersey has noted that the phrase is useful short...

Insight 22/10/2015
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
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'Insolvent trust': A misnomer?

To protect and serve: Understanding the mercurial role of a protector

The paradox of the protector is that the role is rather difficult to define and yet this frustration can enable a greater...

Insight 20/10/2015
  • Jersey
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To protect and serve: Understanding the mercurial role of a protector

Disclosure of trust documents to a non-beneficiary

H A PATEL & K PATEL (A PARTNERSHIP) V HMRC P2014] UKFTT 167 TRUSTS The First-tier Tribunal of England and Wales has ...

Insight 20/10/2015
  • Jersey
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Disclosure of trust documents to a non-beneficiary

Knowledge is power, information is liberating: With help from the Guernsey Court

In 2014, following an interesting decision from the Guernsey Court of Appeal, the Guernsey Court has confirmed that, in r...

Insight 20/10/2015
  • Guernsey
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Knowledge is power, information is liberating: With help from the Guernsey Court

Protector's removal: Guidance from the Jersey Courts

Settlors establishing discretionary trusts often appoint a protector as a safeguard against errant trustees. But who gua...

Insight 20/10/2015
  • Jersey
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Protector's removal: Guidance from the Jersey Courts

Trustee's recovery of costs

It's not my money so who cares? Wrong. In a recent Judgment delivered by the Bailiff, clear guidelines were given to tru...

Insight 20/10/2015
  • Jersey
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Trustee's recovery of costs

New Guernsey foundations for PTCs

For several years, private trust companies have been the vehicle of choice for administering the assets of wealthy famil...

Insight 20/10/2015
  • Guernsey
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New Guernsey foundations for PTCs

Interpreting wills: Construction versus constitution

On 1 September the Royal Court of Jersey issued a rare judgment on a Wills matter relating to the perennial problem of a...

Insight 14/09/2015
  • Jersey
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Interpreting wills: Construction versus constitution

A first step in capping liquidator's costs?

Yesterday the Royal Court of Guernsey issued practice direction 3 of 2015 ("the Practice Direction"). The purpose of the...

Insight 20/08/2015
  • Guernsey
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A first step in capping liquidator's costs?