Even though the post last week touched on a court case that was relatively widely reported, the importance of the streaming decision meant I felt it appropriate to profile.
This week another court decision caught my eye, even though it was simply in relation to the granting of leave to appeal a previous decision.
Many readers will have noticed the 'Bruton Holdings' case from earlier in the year. In that case, a single court judge held that a corporate trustee was not indemnified by a trust for expenses incurred in (successfully) challenging the Tax Office. The lack of indemnity was largely based on the fact that the expenses were incurred after it had ceased to be trustee of the trust.
An appeal has now been granted against the original decision on the basis that -
(a) the issues are of general importance to the powers and rights of trustees; and
(b) the state of the law regarding the powers and rights of bare trustees is not settled.
Until next week.
