Proprietary estoppel: Widening the net

Mark Pawlowski and James Brown examine whether a proprietary estoppel claim can extend to property other than land Assuming that the doctrine of proprietary estoppel is of general application to property other than, strictly speaking, interests in land, there is no reason why a spouse or cohabitee should not be able to mount a successful …
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Investec & anr v Glenalla & ors [2017] WTLR 205

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | March 2017 #167

The plaintiffs were the former trustees of the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust (the ‘trust’), which had been established in Jersey by Declaration of Trust dated 26 March 2007 for the benefit of a class of beneficiaries comprising Robert Tchenguiz and his children a remoter issue. The Trust was funded initially by an appointment from the Tchenguiz Family Trust which had previously been established in the British Virgin Islands. Subsequently, the trustee of this trust entered into a loan agreement for borrowing of monies from Kaupthing Bank (the ‘bank’) and then made an appointment of assets...

Conditional Fee Agreements: The gift that keeps on giving

Paul Jones investigates a new battle ground – breach of contract ‘In summary, all three of the grounds for the appeal were rejected by the judge and he concluded that the original decision must stand and the claimant was not entitled to any costs from the defendant.’ The law surrounding conditional fee agreements (CFAs) has …
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