Trusts and Estates

In Marley v Rawlings [2015] 1 AC 129 the Supreme Court held that the principles for the construction of a Will are no different to that of a commercial contract. In the years following this decision a number of lower courts have (perhaps..

This article takes a look at two recent offshore Beddoe applications: the first made in the context of an estate and the second in the more typical trust arena. Although these are offshore decisions the principles considered are likely to be of..

If a settlor transfers property to a trust in which he has no fixed interest, it ceases to belong to him and passes beyond the reach of his creditors as well as the claims of a divorcing spouse. It must then seem rather puzzling and indeed..