Charles Cooper | Barrister

Category: trustees

A & Ors v. C & Ors [2026] UKPC 11

In the absence of any express provision, ‘settlors must be taken to have known or been advised as to the constraints upon decision-making’ for fiduciaries, and ‘It must be inferred, as a matter of construction, that no further or narrower restraints were intended to be imposed’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukpc/2026/11
Read more: A & Ors v. C & Ors [2026] UKPC 11
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
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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)