{"title":"Cayman Islands","authors":"Morven McMillan","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"The Cayman Islands introduced its first trusts statute in 1967. The Trusts Law is currently in its 2018 revision (the ‘Trusts Law’). The Cayman Islands is a common law jurisdiction and its court will have regard not only to local reported cases but to reported trusts cases and equitable principles developed over centuries in England and other common law jurisdictions.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"18 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120860606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matrimonial Disputes","authors":"Alison Meek, Beth Mason","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Following Marinos v Marinos in family disputes the courts apply the European rather than the domestic law definition of habitual residence and consider a party’s habitual residence to be the place where that person has established on a fixed basis her permanent or habitual centre of interest, with all of the relevant factors being taken into account for the purpose of determining such residence.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132673567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dishonest Assistance","authors":"Sofie Hoffman","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Where a breach of trust is committed by a trustee and a third party has assisted or induced that breach, a claim can be brought against the third party personally so that he is directly liable to the beneficiaries for the breach of trust. The third party is made a ‘constructive trustee’ and the beneficiaries can seek the same remedies against him as if he were a trustee. The liability of the dishonest assister is based on the third party being an accessory to the breach of trust. It is not dependent on him having held any of the trust property.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132503521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Zealand","authors":"A. Butler, Nathaniel L Walker","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0029","url":null,"abstract":"New Zealand is a common law jurisdiction with a strong domestic and offshore trust industry. New Zealand trust law is a mixture of common law, with statutory overlay provided by the general Trustee Act 1956 (‘Trustee Act’), and more specialist provision made for particular types of trusts through statutes such as the Māori Land Act 1993 and the Charitable Trusts Act 1957. A substantial body of New Zealand case law exists on most aspects of trusts law due to the extensive use of trusts in New Zealand to hold family and business assets. There is also a specialist law report series, the New Zealand Trusts Reports.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122822995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breach of Trust Claims","authors":"Susannah Meadway","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198832737.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198832737.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"A trust instrument will set out the trustee’s powers and duties in relation to the management, administration, and distribution of trust property. Certain further powers and duties may be imposed by statute or have been developed in the common law. Trustees must comply with these duties, and act properly in the exercise (or non-exercise) of their powers. Where they do not comply with their duties, whether because they act in direct contravention of them or because they improperly omit to act at all, they may be held liable for breach of trust. Similarly, where they act in excess of their powers, or in certain cases improperly fail to exercise their powers at all, they may be guilty of a breach of trust. Breaches of trust can therefore be of many different kinds. They may include:","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114378454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternative Dispute Resolution","authors":"Beverly Rogers","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"There are a range of different processes, known as alternative dispute resolution (‘ADR’), available to assist in the resolution of trust disputes: arbitration, mediation, early neutral evaluation, and expert determination. To different degrees they offer the parties greater control over both the process and the outcome of the dispute compared to a court process with adversarial argument and a judicial decision imposed at the end.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115200016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Injunctions","authors":"Richard Dew","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"An injunction is ‘a court order prohibiting a person from doing something or requiring a person to do something’. It may be necessary to add that an injunction is usually enforced only through proceedings for contempt of court.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"29 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131511023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rights to Information","authors":"S. Kempster","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198832737.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198832737.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter covers the rights of a beneficiary to call for information relating to a trust. Information will usually be in written form but need not necessarily be so at the time it is requested.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127675747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gibraltar","authors":"Charles Simpson","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0024","url":null,"abstract":"The main statutory provisions in Gibraltar are: the Trustees Act 1895 as amended, which is based on early versions of trust legislation in England and the Trusts (Private International Law) Act 2015 which came into force on 17 September 2015. In addition, Gibraltar is a common law jurisdiction and English common law and the rules of equity are applied in accordance with section 2(1) of the English Law (Application) Act 1962.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141223679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Switzerland","authors":"Tina Wüstemann, Marco Frigg","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832737.003.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Swiss law does not recognize the concept of trusts (although it does recognize trusts created under foreign law). Hence a trust cannot be governed by Swiss law. Yet, Switzerland is seen by many foreigners as an attractive place to live and trusts are often imported by settlors relocating to Switzerland. Switzerland’s popularity as a hub for trust administration and related services has risen during the last years and so has the number of litigation matters involving trust structures. Trustees have become increasingly involved in Swiss proceedings and are frequently parties to complex cross-border disputes; the trustees become a target for aggrieved beneficiaries and family members or ex-spouses.","PeriodicalId":121362,"journal":{"name":"International Trust Disputes, Second Edition","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129669328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}