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Ensure you receive the latest updates from Trusts & Estates
Online Published Date : 15 April 2022 | Appeared in issue: Vol 36 No 1 - 25 February 2022
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Issues with pre-paid funeral trusts
Online Published Date : 20 April 2022 | Appeared in issue: Vol 36 No 2 - 20 April 2022
From time to time private client lawyers are called on to act in disputes about how dead bodies should be disposed of and what form a funeral should take, but who pays for the funeral and by what mechanism is not usually something on which their..
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Hughes v Pritchard: Sick of experts?
Online Published Date : 20 April 2022 | Appeared in issue: Vol 36 No 2 - 20 April 2022
Hughes v Pritchard and Others [2022] EWCA Civ 386 was an appeal in a probate and estoppel claim. The curious reader need not progress far into the case to ascertain its importance; Asplin LJ (with whom Moylan and Elisabeth Laing LJJ agreed) informs..
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Attributing a fiduciary’s illegality to his principal – further guidance from the Supreme Court
Online Published Date : 20 April 2022 | Appeared in issue: Vol 36 No 2 - 20 April 2022
On 3 November 2021, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Aquila Advisory Ltd v Crown Prosecution Service [2021] UKSC 49, holding that a company’s proprietary claim for breach of fiduciary duty against its former directors could be asserted..