Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2018 #171The claimants/applicants brought a part 8 claim, as beneficiaries of a trust of land in Glamorgan known as the Tamplin trust, for disclosure of documents and information by the defendant/respondent trustees. This claim was founded on the basis that the trustees owe a duty to account to the beneficiaries for their stewardship of the trust assets. They also made an application for pre-action disclosure; the court gave judgment on both matters.
The defendants opposed both the claim and the application on a number of grounds. Firstly, the beneficiaries had already received sufficient ...
Jonathan Hilliard provides a welcome review of information rights under trusts from Schmidt v Rosewood up to present day ‘While many jurisdictions contain statutory codes relating to disclosure, few of them are likely to be entirely exhaustive and therefore it will be necessary, at least at the fringes, to decide on the appropriate approach outside …
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