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Resilience and opportunity: Channel Islands trustees in a shifting geopolitical landscape

For trustees and their advisers, geopolitical risk is no longer an abstract backdrop, it is an active force shaping clie...

Insight 01/07/2026
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
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Resilience and opportunity: Channel Islands trustees in a shifting geopolitical landscape

The planning precedent paradox

Guernsey's 'plan-led' planning system contains inherent tensions. Public belief in the concept of 'planning precedent' –...

Insight 18/06/2026
  • Guernsey
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The planning precedent paradox

Trusts: When protectors fail

Protectors of discretionary trusts sometimes find themselves in the unfortunate position of being asked by a beneficiary...

Insight 03/06/2026
  • Guernsey
  • Cayman
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Trusts: When protectors fail

AI and the courts: Cautions from offshore

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in litigation is undoubtedly this year's hot topic. As with other jurisdictions,...

Insight 03/06/2026
  • Jersey
  • Guernsey
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AI and the courts: Cautions from offshore

Arrest without reason: Jersey and Guernsey's anti-money laundering laws and the trial that never ends

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested" - The...

Insight 27/05/2026
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
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Arrest without reason: Jersey and Guernsey's anti-money laundering laws and the trial that never ends

Re Esken Ltd [2026]: A quiet shift in cross-border insolvency strategy

Cross-border insolvency doesn’t often announce itself with fireworks. Instead, it tends to evolve through careful judici...

Insight 27/05/2026
  • Jersey
  • BVI
  • Guernsey
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Re Esken Ltd [2026]: A quiet shift in cross-border insolvency strategy

Principles for protector removal: Bernheim v Krummenacher and ors [2025]GRC060

The recent decision of the Royal Court of Guernsey in Bernheim v Krummenacher provides guidance on the Court’s jurisdict...

Insight 11/05/2026
  • Guernsey
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Principles for protector removal: Bernheim v Krummenacher and ors [2025]GRC060

Trusts in transition: Adapting private wealth structures for the modern world

The way trusts are drafted, in terms of their clarity and use of everyday language, has improved immeasurably over the d...

Insight 07/05/2026
  • Jersey
  • Guernsey
  • Cayman
  • BVI
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Trusts in transition: Adapting private wealth structures for the modern world

Why Middle Eastern families use Channel Islands trusts for wealth structuring and succession planning

As intergenerational wealth in the Middle East continues to grow, affluent families are increasingly turning to sophisti...

Insight 07/05/2026
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
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Why Middle Eastern families use Channel Islands trusts for wealth structuring and succession planning

Generative AI and legal privilege: What boards need to know

Generative AI is already part of how many organisations work, and staff will increasingly turn to it to assist with thei...

Insight 01/04/2026
  • Bermuda
  • BVI
  • Cayman
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
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Generative AI and legal privilege: What boards need to know

Mind the gap: Why the wider role prevails for protectors

On 19 March 2026, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ('JCPC') delivered its judgment in A and Ors (Appellants) ...

Insight 26/03/2026
  • Bermuda
  • Jersey
  • BVI
  • Cayman
  • Guernsey
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Mind the gap: Why the wider role prevails for protectors

Defining children and descendants properly in Jersey and Guernsey law trusts

Who is to be treated as a child for the purpose of construing how an offshore trust or will is supposed to operate? This...

Insight 23/03/2026
  • Jersey
  • Guernsey
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Defining children and descendants properly in Jersey and Guernsey law trusts