trusts – Charles Cooper

Morgan v. Estate of Morgan Dec’d [2026] EWHC 20 (Ch)

No resulting trust where the donor ‘has not proved on the balance of probabilities that she was the beneficial owner of the cash’ and the recipient ‘clearly did not intend that Mrs Morgan should have a beneficial interest in the property that was to be purchased’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2026/20
Read more: Morgan v. Estate of Morgan Dec’d [2026] EWHC 20 (Ch)
Charity Inquiry: OBAC (2025)

Four charity trustees are disqualified by the Charity Commission, having been found to have ‘not sufficiently overseen the actions of the charity’s CEO’: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/charity-inquiry-obac
Read more: Charity Inquiry: OBAC (2025)
Earl of Yarmouth v. Ragley Trust Co & Ors [2025] EWHC 1099 (Ch)

Trustees are entitled to defend an application to remove them, and such an application is capable of being dismissed ‘in the face of hostility, at least coming from a beneficiary, where the trustees are suitable and willing to administer the trusts in the interests of all the beneficiaries’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2025/1099
Read more: Earl of Yarmouth v. Ragley Trust Co & Ors [2025] EWHC 1099 (Ch)

Charles Cooper | Barrister