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![Tucker v. Howe [2026] EWHC 208 (SCCO)](https://trustsbarrister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/rcj2.jpg?w=946)
Tucker v. Howe [2026] EWHC 208 (SCCO)
Read more: Tucker v. Howe [2026] EWHC 208 (SCCO)Where beneficiaries initiated and pursued assessment of a professional executors costs under s.71(3) Solicitors Act 1974, billed at £147,436.33, and took a ‘belligerent approach in characterising a generally unremarkable body of costs as extraordinary in amount’, the Court finds ‘it is fair for the Claimants to bear the costs of these detailed assessment proceedings’ assessed…
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![Grijns v. Grijns [2025] EWHC 2853 (Ch)](https://trustsbarrister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ut-rolls-building.jpg?w=907)
Grijns v. Grijns [2025] EWHC 2853 (Ch)
Read more: Grijns v. Grijns [2025] EWHC 2853 (Ch)In a proprietary estoppel case where the successful party was ‘said to have been unreasonable in their approach to mediation’, the Court finds ‘There can be no quarrel with the idea that parties, in litigation, should make reasonable efforts to settle… That, however, does not compel, or require, a litigant, confronted by a wholly unreasonable…
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![Fernandez v. Fernandez [2025] EWHC 2373 (Ch)](https://trustsbarrister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/rcj3.jpg?w=714)
Fernandez v. Fernandez [2025] EWHC 2373 (Ch)
Read more: Fernandez v. Fernandez [2025] EWHC 2373 (Ch)When deciding to remove an executor under s.50 AJA 1985 the test is not whether ‘continuation in office would impede the due administration of the estate or cause harm to the beneficiaries’, nor whether the ‘estate was endangered’, and the Court was entitled to take into account various conflicts of interest and ‘that personal hostility…