Investec & anr v Glenalla & ors [2019] WTLR 95

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2019 #174

The Background

The Privy Council heard eight appeals arising from the management of the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust (“TDT”) between March 2007 and October 2008.

The TDT is a discretionary trust governed by the law of Jersey; in the period in question it had two trustees which were governed by Guernsey law: Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited (“Investec”) and Bayeux Trustees Limited (collectively “the Trustees”). In July 2010 the Trustees were replaced as trustees of the TDT by Rawlinson & Hunter Trustees SA (“R&H”), a company incorporated in Switzer...

Accidents Abroad: Damage v Damages

Georgia Hicks discusses Stylianou v Suncorp and Rome II the Applicable Law in International Personal Injury Law ‘Providing a more manifest connection can be established with the victim’s home country than the country of the accident, claimants may be able to apply their own domestic law.’ The recent case of Stylianou v Toyoshima [2013] has …
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