Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2022 #189The trustees of two Jersey trusts known as the Piedmont Trust and the Riviera Trust made a Public Trustee v Cooper Category 2 type application for a ‘blessing’ of their decision to make distributions that would exhaust the funds of those trusts.
Detailed background to the trusts and of disputes that had previously arisen in relation to them was set out in Re Jasmine Trustees Ltd and Piedmont Trust [2015] (the 2015 judgment) and Re Piedmont Trust and Riviera Trust [2018] (the 2018 judgment).
The Piedmont Trust was a revocable discretionary trust es...
Robert Gardner looks at how Jersey trustees should avoid a breach of duty when faced with the risk of tax liabilities, with reference to the Onorati Settlement ‘Trustees should, as a minimum, ensure tax advice is received (and reviewed by the trustee) when transactions with possible tax exposures are entered.’ Jersey trustees have received little …
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