Griffin v Higgs & ors [2019] WTLR 539

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2019 #175

By her last Will and Codicils thereto Patricia Folkes appointed the First and Second Defendants, who were her solicitors, and the Third Defendant, who was her accountant, to act as executors (“Executors”). Her estate, which included a large house in substantial grounds called Stourton Hall and a holiday home at Pen-y-Graig, was left on discretionary trusts for the benefit of her three children and seven grandchildren. She also left a letter in which she said that her personal chattels at those properties had already been given to the Fourth Defendant, Constantine Folkes. She died on 20 D...

Trusts: Do your homework

Nigel Sanders examines changes of trustees and protectors in contentious circumstances ‘The court held that the appointment of the new trustee and removal of the trustees were such closely linked decisions and exercises of the powers of appointment, that they stood and fell together.’Most modern trust instruments will contain provisions which grant certain individuals the …
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