5 May 2020
McCALLUM v McCALLUM [2020] NZHC 907
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 907
- Court
- High Court
Judge adopted the 'best interests of the trust' test for Beddoe applications and made a case-by-case preliminary merits assessment; granted limited Beddoe indemnities where defence or participation in the litigation served the trust's interests (second cause; limited participation for third, fourth and eighth causes to provide factual information and legal submissions but not active defence; authorised defence of removal-as-executor claim) and refused indemnities for other causes (first, fifth and sixth) because either they should be abided or lacked sufficient preliminary merit to justify tr…