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Trusts [2025] EWHC 1643 (Ch)

Walker v Somboonsarn

Walker v Somboonsarn [2025] EWHC 1643 (Ch) (03 July 2025)

The High Court decided post-trial accounting issues in a trust dispute over two properties and company dividends, disallowing the defendant’s claimed purchase contributions and expenses.

  • Beneficial ownership
  • Equitable account
  • Trustee expenses
  • Equitable allowance
  • Director remuneration
  • Trusts
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Insolvency

Ardawa v Uppal & Anor

The court decided costs after an unsuccessful bankruptcy annulment appeal, holding it could summarily assess estate-paid costs and reducing both respondents’ recoveries.

  • Bankruptcy costs
  • Annulment of bankruptcy order
  • Assessment of costs
  • Trustee expenses
  • Bankruptcy-costs
  • Summary-assessment
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Insolvency law [2019] EWHC 1663 (Ch)

Ardawa v Uppal & Anor

Ardawa v Uppal & Anor [2019] EWHC 1663 (Ch) (28 June 2019)

The High Court decided costs after an unsuccessful bankruptcy-annulment appeal, holding it could summarily assess estate costs and awarding reduced sums for both respondents.

  • Bankruptcy costs
  • Annulment of bankruptcy
  • Costs assessment
  • Trustee expenses
  • Substituted service
  • Bankruptcy-costs
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Insolvency

Amin v London Borough of Redbridge & Anor

Appeal over bankruptcy-related costs partly succeeded: Amin remained liable for petition and Official Receiver costs, but each side bore its own costs of the rescission application.

  • Bankruptcy
  • Costs
  • Council tax liability
  • Rescission vs annulment
  • Trustee expenses
  • Bankruptcy-costs
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Trust law

UBS Ag, London Branch v Glas Trust Corporation Ltd & Anor

The High Court held that a note trustee could not automatically adopt ad hoc noteholders’ expenses without independently checking they were properly incurred.

  • Trustee expenses
  • Securitisation
  • Priority of payments
  • Interpretation of trust deeds
  • Trustee-expenses
  • Priority-of-payments
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Trusts and estates

Drakeford v Cotton & Anor

The court held that June 2008 statements by Mrs Cotton made Mrs Stain the beneficial owner of joint account funds on survivorship, excluding them from the estate.

  • Joint bank accounts
  • Resulting trusts
  • Lifetime gifts
  • Survivorship
  • Testamentary dispositions
  • Trustee expenses
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