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Trusts and estates [2024] JRC 233

Judge and Judge v CSC Trustee 2 (Jersey) Limited

Judge and Judge v CSC Trustee 2 (Jersey) Limited [2024] JRC 233 (04 November 2024)

The Royal Court of Jersey granted leave to amend pleadings in a trust dispute, holding the proposed changes were only further particulars and not a hopeless new claim.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Trustee duties
  • Fiduciary powers
  • Prescription/limitation periods
  • Standing/locus standi
  • Amendment-of-pleadings
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Trusts [2023] JRC 138

In the matter of the Alpha Beta and Delta Trust

In the matter of the Alpha Beta and Delta Trust [2023] JRC 138 (02 August 2023)

The Jersey Royal Court refused to direct a trustee to appoint directors or order immediate disclosure, holding the trustee’s observer-based plan and staged disclosure approach were reasonable.

  • Trustee duties
  • Disclosure to beneficiaries
  • Court supervision of trusts
  • Non-intervention principle
  • Bartlett principle
  • Trustee-duties
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Tax law [2023] JRC 119

JTC (Jersey) Limited and Anor v Jersey Competent Authority

JTC (Jersey) Limited and Anor v Jersey Competent Authority [2023] JRC 119 (17 July 2023)

The Royal Court lifted a prohibition preventing a Jersey trustee and related company from telling beneficiaries about an exchange-of-information notice.

  • Exchange of tax information
  • Prohibition on disclosure
  • Judicial review
  • Trustee duties
  • International cooperation in tax matters
  • Exchange-of-information
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Trust law [2023] JRC 009

Patel v JTC Trust Company Limited and Ors

Patel v JTC Trust Company Limited and Ors [2023] JRC 009 (13 January 2023)

The Jersey Royal Court allowed only part of a proposed amendment to trust litigation, rejecting unjust enrichment and some other claims, and apportioned costs.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Trustee duties
  • Conspiracy
  • Dishonest assistance
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Costs apportionment
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Civil procedure [2020] JRC 012

The Law Trust Limited v JTC Trust Company Limited

The Law Trust Limited v JTC Trust Company Limited [2020] JRC 012 (23 January 2020)

The Royal Court of Jersey made a personal costs order against both advocates after they failed to provide required discovery information before a directions hearing.

  • Discovery
  • Electronic discovery
  • Costs orders
  • Trustee duties
  • Electronic-discovery
  • Costs-orders
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Trust law [2018] JRC 227

Haddad v GB Trustees Limited and Anor

Haddad v GB Trustees Limited and Anor [2018] JRC 227 (06 December 2018)

The Royal Court ordered GB Trustees Limited to file a further and better affidavit of discovery after serious discovery failures, and awarded the plaintiff substantial indemnity costs.

  • Discovery obligations
  • Indemnity costs
  • Pleadings clarity
  • Trustee duties
  • Trust-law
  • Civil-procedure
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Trusts and estates [2018] JRC 210

Representation of Jasmine Trustees re Piedmont Trust and Riviera Trust

Representation of Jasmine Trustees re Piedmont Trust and Riviera Trust [2018] JRC 210 (15 November 2018)

The Royal Court of Jersey set aside revocation notices for two family trusts, holding they were executed under undue influence by the father and, alternatively, would have been vitiated by mistake.

  • Revocation of trusts
  • Undue influence
  • Mistake
  • Beneficiary standing
  • Trustee duties
  • Trust-revocation
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Trusts and estates [2018] JCA 136

Appleby Trust (Mauritius) Limited v Crociani

Appleby Trust (Mauritius) Limited v Crociani [2018] JCA 136 (25 July 2018)

The Court of Appeal held that the Royal Court had wrongly treated a consent order as preventing an issue-based approach to indemnity costs, and remitted the matter.

  • Costs
  • Indemnity costs
  • Issue-based costs orders
  • Trustee duties
  • Litigation conduct
  • Indemnity-costs
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Trusts [2018] JRC 091A

Crociani v Crociani and Ors

Crociani v Crociani and Ors [2018] JRC 091A (18 May 2018)

The Jersey Royal Court quantified equitable compensation for a trust portfolio and recovered certain intercompany loans, applying a prudent-trustee hypothetical valuation.

  • Breach of trust
  • Equitable compensation
  • Trustee duties
  • Hypothetical valuation
  • Investment management
  • Recovery of trust assets
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Trust law [2018] JRC 045

Representation of Bell

Representation of Bell [2018] JRC 045 (02 March 2018)

The Jersey Royal Court held that the Bell Annuity Investment Trust was created by mistake and was void ab initio, setting aside the transfers to it.

  • Mistake in trust creation
  • Void trusts
  • Inheritance tax planning
  • Trustee duties
  • Offshore trusts
  • Trust-mistake
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