High Praise For ´Innovative´ Guide To Guernsey Trust Law

A GUIDE TO GUERNSEY’S TRUST LAW by St John Robilliard (CD-ROM)

In a recent review of A Guide to Guernsey’s Trust Law by St John Robilliard the author acknowledged that he had achieved a first – a book review that was not in fact about a book, rather on this occasion a CD ROM. Paid Matthews, a consultant with the firm of Withers LLP, and a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London has described the work as "innovative" and "useful". He notes that "Guernsey suffers in some respects by comparison with Jersey in legal matters. So far (and despite promises) there is no equivalent website in Guernsey to the Jersey Legal Information Board website, there are no regular law reports published, there are only a few books published in recent times on Guernsey law (though a more than honourable mention must be made of Gordon Dawes’ modern classic work), and the only regular source of legal information, the Guernsey Law Journal, although very useful in its way, is unfortunately rather in