M v St Anne‘s Trustees Ltd (2018) unreported judgment 1/2018 Guernsey Royal Court 12 January

Dreamvar: Who bears the loss?

Dreamvar has implications not only for conveyancers but for breach of trust claims. Claire-Marie Cornford and Sarah Smith explain ‘The Court of Appeal held that the purchase monies should have remained in the vendor’s solicitor’s client account pending either a genuine completion of the sale or further instructions from the purchaser’s solicitors.’ The recent case …

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Breach of trust: Who bears the loss?

Dreamvar has implications not only for conveyancers but for breach of trust claims against professional trustees. Claire-Marie Cornford and Sarah Smith explain ‘It was accepted that there had been failures in the identification checks undertaken by OWC and MMS; however, in both cases the claims against the vendors’ solicitors were dismissed at first instance on …

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Trustees: Setting the scope of relief

Mathew Newman and Abby Lund review Guernsey‘s first written judgment on the rule in Hastings-Bass ‘The court ultimately held that any breach of duty by a trustee was capable of being treated as enabling the court to intervene and exercise the Hastings-Bass jurisdiction to set aside the relevant act or transaction, if the court was …

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