10 Trusteeship - introductory web links

10 Trusteeship - introductory web links

Trustee appointments

Futter & Anor v Revenue and Customs [2013] UKSC 26 (9 May 2013)

http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2013/26.html

Important case on the review of trustee decisions

The following is a link to Law Commission Consultation Paper 171 Trustee Exemption Clauses 2nd December 2002.

http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/areas/trustee-exemption-clauses.htm

Charity Commission leaflet CC3 - Responsibilities of Charity Trustees

http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publications/cc3.aspx

A Sprince 'Trustees' duty to defend - Look before you leap, when to leap and how high'. (1995) 1 Web JCLI

http://www.bailii.org/uk/other/journals/WebJCLI/1995/issue1/sprince1.html

An article discussing the trustees' dilemma whether or not to defend proceedings brought against the trust.

Trustee Act 2000 c.29

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/29/contents

Trustee Delegation Act 1999:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/15/contents

Public Trustee

https://www.gov.uk/public-trustee-executor-will

On the appointment of the Public Trustee as executor of an estate

P Matthews 'Indemnities For Retiring Trustees' (1990) 1(2) OTPR 27

http://www.kessler.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Matthews-Indemnities-for-Retiring-Trustees.pdf

A full text article from the website of James Kessler, Barrister, the author of Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts (London: Sweet & Maxwell)

C Stebbings 'The Private Trustee in Victorian England' ( Cambridge: CUP, 2002)

assets.cambridge.org/052178185X/sample/052178185XWS.pdf

A full text sample from this book

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 came fully into force on 1 October 2007.

http://www.dca.gov.uk/menincap/legis.htm

Richards v. Wood

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2014/327.html

Court of Appeal on the nature of trustees’ duty of care

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