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Offshore: The test for sham trusts

Nick Williams, James Angus and Matthew Davies discuss a sham trust case that raises pertinent points for both practitioners and trustees Even a trustee who is recklessly indifferent to the intentions of the settlor must, independently, have a positive intention to mislead third parties. In its judgment in Cohen and Crooks as Joint Administrators of …