Grand View Private Trust Co Ltd & ors v Wong & anr [2023] WTLR 149

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2023 #190

The Global Resource Trust No.1 (the GRT) was created by a declaration of trust dated 10 May 2001. It was accepted that the true economic settlors were two brothers, YC Wang and YT Wang (the founders), who had built a group of companies from the 1950s into one of the largest business conglomerates in Taiwan (FPG Group). They had died in 2008 and 2014 respectively.

Shortly after the GRT was established, Grid Investors Corp, an investment holding company ultimately owned by the founders which held shares in FPG companies, was transferred to the GRT trustee. The value of those shares ...

Equiom (Isle of Man) Ltd & ors v Velarde & ors [2022] WTLR 109

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2022 #186

Under a settlement made in 1974 by the deceased’s father, the deceased became the life tenant of a fund, over which property she had a power of appointment exercisable in favour of her children by deed revocable or irrevocable, or by will. In 1981, by a deed of appointment with effect from her death, the deceased appointed the fund between her three children. By a deed of revocation in 1997, expressed to be supplemental to the settlement and the 1981 deed of appointment, with effect from her death, the fund was appointed on trust for only two of her three children. The deceased made her ...