Trusts and Estates

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..

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..

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..