Re Various Incapacitated Persons
 [2018] WTLR 1511

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2018 #170

The court was asked to consider the applications, made on behalf of 36 incapacitated persons, to appoint a trust corporation as their property and affairs deputy. There was currently no agreed system through which the court could know that any particular trust corporation was suitable to be appointed as deputy, nor a ‘panel’ of approved trust corporations.

The following questions arose:

  1. A. Could a trust corporation lawfully act as a deputy?
  2. B. How could a trust corporation satisfy the court that it was appropriate for it to act as deputy?
  3. C. How shou...