Trusts: Hush money

University of Greenwich | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | October 2020 #217
Mark Pawlowski considers the interrelationship between proprietary estoppel and secret trusts To what extent is it open to a testator to change their will or revoke the instructions they have given to their secret trustee so as to frustrate the expectations of the secret beneficiary? The answer to this question depends on whether the secret …

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Proprietary Estoppel: Down on the farm

Tanfield Chambers | Property Law Journal | December 2016/January 2017 #347
Rebecca Cattermole highlights the current position on the doctrine of estoppel in the context of recent case law ‘It was a useful working hypothesis to take a sliding scale by which the clearer the expectation, the greater the detriment.’ The case of Moore v Moore [2016] is the most recent illustration of the treatment of …

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Proprietary Estoppel: Deal or no deal

New Square Chambers | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | April 2013 #145
Christopher Lloyd examines the current approach of the court to proprietary estoppel as indicated in Bradbury v Taylor</em Assurances or promises do not need to be the sole reason for the representee’s conduct: it is sufficient if they are an inducement. The inexorable rise in real property prices over the last half-century means that a …

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