Dewar v Sheffield City Council & anr [2019] WTLR 495

Summer 2019 #175

Graves Park in Sheffield was held by the defendant council on a charitable trust governed by scheme made in 2009. Clause 4(2) of the scheme provided that the land subject to the scheme ‘must be retained by the trustee for use for the object of the charity’. Clause 10 of the scheme provided that “The Commission may decide any question put to it concerning: (1) The interpretation of this scheme; (2) The propriety or validity of anything done or intended to be done under it.”

Section 6, Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 provides that:

‘(1) For ...

Purvis v Purvis [2018] WTLR 585

Summer 2018 #172

The claimant, who was born in 1934, left all financial matters to her husband until his 
death in 2005. He had made ample provision for her, with an annual income of 
about £100,000. She lived in a large house, in Northumberland, which for 
inheritance tax planning reasons she transferred to her son, the defendant, in 2006. 
As she continued to live in the house, to comply with the reservation of benefit rules she paid her son a monthly rent of £2,500. The claimant’s health began to deteriorate in 2011, subsequently suffering a stroke which left her with hemiplegia. By 2013, 
as a conseq...