Guidance on the court's inherent jurisdiction to order disclosureof trust documents to non-beneficiaries

BX v T Ltd and Others [2025] GCA 063

By Raj Arumugam

The Guernsey Court of Appeal has provided a helpful analysis of the court's inherent jurisdiction to order a trustee to disclose trust information and documents to a third party who was not currently the object of a dispositive power, but who was the object of a power to add further objects to the trust. In BX v T Ltd and Others [2025] GCA 063 (20 August 2025) the court upheld the decision of the lower court refusing the third party's application for disclosure, in the process confirming the high bar that needs to be met for any such application to succeed.