Seddon & ors v HMRC [2015] UKFTT 140

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2015 #151

The appellants were trustees of a discretionary settlement settled in 1999. The settlement’s original assets were five £1 ordinary shares in a limited company. In 2000 the settlement received a scrip dividend of preference shares in the company. The preference shares were sold by the trustees two days after their receipt. Their value was £1,382,750. Some nine years later and a few days before the settlement’s ten year anniversary the trustees made a distribution worth £1,260,361 to certain beneficiaries.

The principal issues concerning were:

  1. 1. Whether the...

Randall v Randall [2014] EWHC 3134 (Ch)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | January/February 2015 #146

The claimant and defendant, who were divorced, had disposed of their claims for financial provision in their divorce proceedings by a consent order which included the provision that, in the event that the defendant received any property and/or monies from her mother by way of inter vivos gifts and/or inheritance, the defendant would retain the first £100,000 of the sum of any such gifts and/or inheritance and the balance would be divided equally between the defendant and the claimant.

The defendant’s mother died. The deceased’s estate was valued at approximately £250,000, giving t...

Re BXL Services [2012] EWHC 1877 (Ch)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | December 2012 #125

BXL Services (the company) was a charitable company limited by guarantee. Owing to government cuts and a large pension deficit, it became insolvent and the directors resolved to place it into administration pursuant to para 22 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 (the Act). No formal notice in the form prescribed by para 26(2) to Schedule B1 of the Act was given to the company itself. On one construction of the Act, this omission was fatal to the validity of the appointment. On a second construction, it was not an omission at all as such notice was not a requirement. On a third cons...