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Offshore Trustees: Are you watching closely?
Andrew Willins and Sebastian Said examine a case which has lessons on liability and its proper limitation for trustees ‘Courts in the BVI and the Cayman Islands have rightly set their face against reducing the general law duties to such a level as to render them meaningless.’It is comparatively rare to encounter judgments from the …
Cases Referenced
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- Appleby Corporate Services (BVI) Ltd (as a trustee of The Clef Trust) v Citco Trustees (BVI) Ltd [2014] 17 ITELR 413
- Armitage v Nurse [1997] EWCA Civ 1279
- Bartlett v Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd (Nos 1 and 2) [1980] 1 Ch 515
- Fattal v Walbrook Trustees (Jersey) Ltd [2010] EWHC 2767
- Re Barings (No 5) [1999] 1 BCLC 433
- Re Lucking's Trust [1968] 1 WLR 866 (Ch D)
- Re Vickery; Vickery v Stephens [1931] 1 Ch 572
- Re Westmid [1997] EWCA Civ 3013
- Speight v Gaunt (1883) UKHL 1
- Spread Trustee Co Ltd v Hutcheson [2011] UKPC 13; [2012] WTLR 317
- Walker v Stones [2000] WTLR 975 CA
- Weavering Capital (UK) Ltd (In Liquidation) v ULF Magnus Michael Peterson & ors [2012] EWHC 1480 (Ch)