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Dawson-Damer & ors v Taylor Wessing LLP & ors [2019] WTLR 1111
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2019 #177The claimants are beneficiaries of a number of Bahamian trusts; Taylor Wessing LLP (TW) act as the solicitors for the trustees of a number of these trusts.
On 14 August 2014, the claimant served a subject access request (SAR) on TW, requesting disclosure of the personal data relating to them held by TW as the solicitors for the trustees They were unsatisfied by the disclosure provided to them by TW, and brought proceedings under s7(9) of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998).
The matter came before the Court of Appeal ([2017] 1 WLR 3255), which ...
Dawson-Damer & ors v Taylor Wessing LLP & anr [2018] WTLR 57
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2018 #171The appellants were beneficiaries of a number of Bahamian trusts; the respondent solicitors (‘TW’) act on behalf of the trustee of these trusts. On 4 August 2014, the appellants served a subject access request (‘SAR’) on TW, requesting disclosure of the personal data relating to the appellants held by TW as the solicitors for the trustee. The appellants were not satisfied by TW’s response to the SAR. They therefore applied to the court to exercise its discretion under s.7(9) of the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘DPA’), and grant a declaration that TW had not complied with t...
Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing [2015] EWHC 2366 (Ch)
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | March 2016 #157Taylor Wessing LLP (TW) are the London solicitors of Grampian Trust Company Limited (the trustee), a company resident and incorporated in the Bahamas. The trustee is trustee of a discretionary settlement known as the Glenfinnan settlement, settled in 1992 and governed by Bahamian law. The Glenfinnan settlement was a resettlement of certain funds from an earlier Bahamian settlement (the 1973 settlement). The first claimant is a beneficiary of the Glenfinnan settlement. The second and third claimants, her children, are not beneficiaries. In 2006 and 2009 the trustee made substantial appoin...
Birdseye & anr v Roythorne & Co & ors [2015] EWHC 1003 (Ch)
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2015 #151Roythorne & Co (Roythornes), a firm of solicitors, acted for Mr & Mrs Dring and, following his death on 28 September 2008, the executors of Mr Dring, Mr Pola and Mr Doubleday. Roythorne & Co (Roythornes), a firm of solicitors, acted for Mr & Mrs Dring and, following his death on 28 September 2008, the executors of Mr Dring, Mr Pola and Mr Doubleday. Mr & Mrs Dring were the only shareholders of Dring Bros Limited, which had acquired Manor Farm to enable Mrs Dring’s brother and sister in law (Mrs Cooke), who were the tenant farmers, to continue to live there. Roythornes...
Kousouros v O’Halloran & anr [2014] EWHC 2294 (Ch)
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2015 #151The claimant (K) and second defendant (A) are brother and sister. They are the children of George Kousouros (D) who died in Cyprus in March 2007 leaving a large house in Islington (the property) where he had lived with K prior to returning to Cyprus in 2000 and which also provided a rental income. According to K, who still lives there and takes the rental income, D transferred the property to him in 2001 on terms which included a payment to A of £50,000 and pursuant on the oral terms his parents executed a deed of transfer of the registered title to the property in form TR1 which A was a...
Professional Conduct: A cautionary tale of privilege and conflict
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