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Test for unwinding trustee decisions (Stannard v Fisons Pension Trust)

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Published on: 06 November 1991
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In Stannard v Fisons Pension Trust Ltd, the Court of Appeal held the trustees’ decision to be invalid, suggesting that the test to be applied in determining when the court could interfere was whether the trustees might not have acted as they did rather than they would not have acted as they did.

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