Trusts Barristers

Many members of the team give lectures on these aspects as well as advising and appearing in court. Aspects dealt with on a regular basis include:

• Joint ownership of land – commonly involving a constructive trust
• Transactions which fail in part and may involve a resulting trust
• Trusts imposed by reason of certain circumstances e.g. upon a seller of land between contract and completion, on the survivor in the case of mutual wills or in cases where parties agree only one of them will bid for a property.
• Trusts arising when a proprietary estoppel is found to exist.
• Reviewing the key elements for a valid express private trust.
• Advising trustees on their fiduciary duties.
• Removal and replacement of trustees (similarly with personal representatives).
• Disclosure obligations towards beneficiaries.
• Seeking the guidance of the Court or releasing the trustee's discretions to the Court.
• Beddoes applications (i.e. protecting trustees as regards litigation costs).

Barristers

Sort: Year of call or Surname

• Malcolm Warner
• Ewan Paton
• Michael Selway
• Paul Lewis
• Katie Hooper
• Oliver Mitchell
• Brittany Pearce