Alternative dispute resolution: Seeking consensus

Withers LLP | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | June 2022 #234
Dawn Goodman explores how mediation can work well in trust and estates disputes Ironically, some of the qualities of trust and succession disputes that make them so difficult to settle may make mediation among the most successful ways of achieving a consensual outcome. Trust and estate disputes can be among the most unpleasant and difficult …

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Trustees: First in time, first in line?

Farrer & Co | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | November 2019 #211
Adam Carvalho and Joseph de Lacey examine the priority of trustee indemnities ‘The original trustee argued that a pari passu approach was wrong in law, and that its claim had priority over the other creditors of the Z II Trust.’ Readers will of course know that trustees have a right to be indemnified for costs …

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