Mundil-Williams v Mundil-Williams & ors WTLR(w) 2021-11

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Re J C Druce Settlement [2021] WTLR 597

Summer 2021 #183

By a settlement dated 10 December 1959 (the settlement), John Christopher Druce (the settlor) settled property on discretionary trusts for the benefit of a class of beneficiaries defined as meaning ‘all the male descendants of the Settlor’s brothers and sisters… who are already in being or shall be born before the Vesting Day’. The settlement further provided that the trustees should hold the trust property, or such part thereof as shall not have been paid, transferred or applied under any trust or power therein contained upon trust, for such of the beneficiaries as wer...

O’Keefe v Caner [2017] EWHC 1105 (Ch)

Summer 2017 #168

This was a trial of the preliminary issue of whether claims made by the joint liquidators of two Jersey-incorporated companies against the respondents were time-barred as a matter of Jersey law.

In the proceedings, the applicants claimed that between 10 April 2007 and 10 June 2008 payments were made of €16m and €18m from ‘Level One’ and ‘Special Opportunity’ respectively, to or for the benefit of the first respondent or companies owned beneficially by him. Those payments were claimed not to have been made in good faith for a legitimate commercial purpose of the companies, and the ...

Evans & ors v Lloyd & anr [2013] EWHC 1725 (Ch)

September 2013 #132

Wynne Evans (Wynne) died on 2 September 2006 at the age of 79. He had worked on a farm from the age of 14. The farm latterly belonged to the defendants, David Lloyd (David) and his wife Elizabeth Lloyd (Elizabeth). Previously it had belonged to David’s parents and grandparents.

There was an issue as to whether Wynne had died testate or intestate. The claimants argued he died intestate but the defendants argued that he died testate and that the will, of which David was residuary beneficiary, had been lost.

The first claimant Howell Evans (Howell) is Wynne’s sole ...