Alicia Tan reports on a case that confirms the Chancery position on jurisdiction over foreign trusts The effect of Chellaram is to give the English courts a broad remit to intervene in the administration of foreign trusts by way of the in personam jurisdiction. The recent case of Heslop v Heslop [2021] has once again …
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2022 #186Mr Dudley Heslop issued two separate proceedings in England against his sister, Ms Mona Heslop, domiciled in England, and his other sister, Mrs Jennifer Seales, domiciled in Scotland. The proceedings concerned the equitable ownership of a property in Jamaica that had been purchased by the parties’ late mother in 2008. The parties’ mother had been domiciled in England from 1948 to 2015 when she moved to Scotland to live with Mrs Seales. In 2018, the parties’ mother passed away, leaving a will dated 13 March 2012 which purported to deal with the property. The proceedings issued by Mr Heslo...
