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This article by Andrew Peedom entitled 'STAR enforcer' was published in STEP Journal (Issue 4, 2025). Practitioners familiar with Cayman Islands trusts will know that STAR[1] trusts are statutory in origin and unique to the Cayman Islands. One of their d...
Offshore 'lifeboat' trusts for US persons
In recent months we have seen growing demand in the Channel Islands from Ultra High Net Worth US families and their advisors who are interested in establishing asset protection structures in well regulated 'safe harbour' jurisdictions. This is in respons...
Retiring trustees: Should I stay or can I go?
What is a sole trustee to do where it is entitled to resign but no replacement has yet been found? Confronted with that scenario, Kawaley J of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the Court) delivered judgment on 19 June 2025 in In the matter of the O ...
Trust briefing: Challenges to trustee decisions
It is often thought that a discretionary decision made by a trustee is difficult or sometimes even impossible to challenge. However there are many different strategies – based on either technical flaws in the execution of trustee decisions, or substantiv...
Trust briefing: When the child was a child
The beneficial class in many Jersey discretionary trusts will often be defined by reference to the relationship of 'children or remoter issue of X'. 'X' may be the settlor themselves or perhaps a relative in the settlor's family. What is 'a child' in a J...
Trust briefing: Breach of trust
Jersey trust law is principally governed by the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984 (the TJL). In a number of important areas, Jersey trust law has developed in a different and often more flexible way than in England. Care must therefore be taken when applying Engl...
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