Re H Trust; Butterfield Trust (Bermuda) Ltd v P & ors [2020] WTLR 167

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2020 #178

Held:

1) On the wording of the trust deed, the protectors of the trust had to act jointly. The unilateral designation of the first successor protector was therefore invalid, as was his purported designation of P as his successor protector.

2) Since the powers of the protector under the trust deed – the power to remove and appoint trustees, power to move the situs of the trust and authority to require and approve accounts – were fiduciary, and since the personal characteristics of the individual originally appointed by the trust deed were not essential to the exercise of t...

In the matter of F Trust –

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | June 2016 #160

The applicants, three trustees of the F Trust and the A Settlement (the trusts), applied, pursuant to s47A of the Trustee Act 1975 and/or the inherent jurisdiction of the Court, to set aside deeds of appointment and retirement of trustees executed in 2005 and 2008, respectively, to the extent that they appointed the first defendant as a trustee.

The F Trust and the A Settlement were established in Bermuda with the same corporate trustee in 1958 and 1968 respectively. Individual trustees were subsequently appointed. The first defendant, a British resident, was app...