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Trustees exercise power of appointment to create new trusts and rectify exclusion of a beneficiary (PQ and another v RS and others)

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Published on: 25 July 2019
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  • What are the practical implications of this case?
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  • What did the court decide?

Article summary

Private Client analysis: Richard Dew, barrister at Ten Old Square Chambers, discusses the case of PQ and another v RS and others, in which an older trust, made prior to reforming legislation, excluded as a beneficiary a grandchild who was born before her parents married.

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