Jersey law – Law Journals

Offshore: Deed of gift set aside on account of a fundamental mistake

Royal Court of Jersey case Re B & C clarifies the principles for setting aside a disposition of assets into a nominee arrangement on the ground of donor’s mistake. Paul Matthams explains In applying the relevant test, it was still a requirement for the court to be satisfied that the donor or settlor would not …

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Rectification: Clarifying the nature of the test

The Jersey Royal Court has taken a divergent approach to rectification. Hugh Gunson and Thomas Watts analyse a recent decision The Jersey Royal Court’s conclusion that there is no merit in maintaining the fourth limb of the test for rectification is striking, particularly in view of the comments made by the Jersey Court of Appeal. …

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Offshore: Making the most of mistake

Rebecca McNulty discusses two recent cases from the UK and Jersey courts that emphasise the importance of a complete evidence picture when establishing mistake If the court is to be persuaded that there has been a genuine mistake, it needs to be provided with all relevant correspondence and documents so that such an assessment can …

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Offshore: The test for sham trusts

Nick Williams, James Angus and Matthew Davies discuss a sham trust case that raises pertinent points for both practitioners and trustees Even a trustee who is recklessly indifferent to the intentions of the settlor must, independently, have a positive intention to mislead third parties. In its judgment in Cohen and Crooks as Joint Administrators of …

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Protectors: The watchdog

Timothy Sherwin takes a closer look at the evolving role of protectors While a protector may be an office created by an individual trust instrument, it is not, unlike the office of trustee, a general role about which sweeping generalisations can easily be made. The role of protectors in trusts, especially but not uniquely in …

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Mistake: Forgiven, but not rewritten

Oliver Auld reviews the scope of the Jersey courts to set aside a voluntary disposition or other transaction on the grounds of mistake While the court accepted that Art 47G gave it a flexible decision-making power to determine the extent to which a voidable exercise of power has effect, the court was not persuaded that …

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Offshore: What is appropriate?

Robert Lindley and Wesley O’Brien discuss cases where offshore courts act as auxiliaries to those onshore Generally, for a foreign judgment to be capable of enforcement in an offshore common law jurisdiction such as Cayman or Jersey, it must be final and conclusive, for the payment of a sum of money and made by a …

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Fiduciary powers: Stocktaking

Stephen Alexander explores when it is possible to exclude a beneficiary under a discretionary trust Typically, if a beneficiary is excluded from a class by way of exercise of a power of exclusion, he or she can take no further interest under the settlement. A power to exclude a beneficiary is a fiduciary power which, …

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Offshore: No joy for judgment creditors

James Sheedy looks at enforcing judgments against discretionary beneficiaries in Jersey The decision in Kea Investments is simply that a judgment creditor cannot take a shortcut to asset recovery by way of an arrêt. The Royal Court of Jersey has held in Kea Investments Ltd v Watson [2021] that it is not possible for a judgment …

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