Niles v Lake [1947] SCR 291

Trusts and joint bank accounts: Check your admin

Danielle Dennis-Betts explores an influential Privy Council decision on how funds in a joint bank account should be treated on the death of one account holder ‘Perhaps the most important point to be considered in the case is what weight should be attached to an account opening agreement, signed by all holders of the bank …

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Joint bank accounts: Shared intentions

Antonia Barker analyses the approach to joint accounts and the significance of a declaration as to the beneficial ownership of such an account ‘Where there is a joint account, there is a single contractual relationship between the holders and the bank’. In Whitlock v Moree [2017] the Privy Council, on appeal from the Court of …

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