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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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![Stoney-Anderson v. Abbas [2023] EWHC 2964 (Ch)](https://trustsbarrister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/rcj4.jpg?w=822)
Stoney-Anderson v. Abbas [2023] EWHC 2964 (Ch)
Read more: Stoney-Anderson v. Abbas [2023] EWHC 2964 (Ch)An executor loses indemnity for costs in fighting his removal ‘when it ought to have been obvious that… in light of the allegations made against him, the administration of the estate would not be carried out effectively and properly so long as he remained’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2023/2964