Will disputes: The recalcitrant executor

Ashfords LLP and No5 Chambers | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | January/February 2023 #240
Barny Croft and Louise Corfield consider Pegler v McDonald, the case that has something for everyone The court deemed that its findings added up to a ‘comprehensive disqualification for [the defendant’s] being concerned in the fiduciary administration of assets for the benefit of other people’. If you have not read the case of Pegler v …

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Costs: Sea of adversity

Mayer Brown International LLP | The Commercial Litigation Journal | March/April 2018 #78
James Whitaker reflects on adverse costs orders ‘If the non-party not only funds, but also controls or stands to benefit from the proceedings, justice will ordinarily require that the non-party pays the successful party‘s costs if the funded party fails.‘ An adverse costs order is but one of the risks parties to litigation run. That …

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